Celmari-BOS☘️🇵🇭 🇺🇸

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[Win Gatchalian @WinGatchalian74]

Taos-puso akong nagpapasalamat sa inyong tiwala. Asahan ninyo ang tapat na paglilingkod sa Senado.

[Jojo Clemente @jclem3]

When even Jules Ledesma soeaks out against you, you know you've crossed a line.

[NewsWatch Plus PH @newswatchplusph]

Senator Alan Peter Cayetano and Senator Robin Padilla are facing complaints with the ombudsman for obstruction of justice for supposedly aiding fugitive senator Bato dela Rosa escape from the Senate premises while facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC). https://t.co/PjxVTU8x0F

[hteY♥️ @mayeth94469263]

Nanalo ang kabutihan sa Senado !

[Karen Davila @iamkarendavila]

Absolute disrespect for the Filipino people. What entitlement.

Mag-boycott tayo.
Huwag mag trabaho.
Hayaan natin ang mga nakabinbing panukala.

Mga senador, binabayaran kayo ng taumbayan. Pambabastos ito sa Pilipino.

[The Manila Times @TheManilaTimes]

DISGRACEFUL is the word that springs to mind when we recall the recent shenanigans at the Senate, starting with the leadership change on May 11.

[Celmari-BOS☘️🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @iamcelmari]

@31milmovement Yes

[Philstar.com @PhilstarNews]

TIME TO STEP DOWN?

Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano should consider stepping down for the good of the chamber, as his combative leadership style appears to be fueling a gridlock that threatens to render the Senate useless, former Senate president Aquilino Pimentel III said yesterday.

While not framed as a demand, Pimentel said Cayetano should resign given the fact that the chamber could no longer accomplish anything under his leadership.

Read: https://t.co/kPPPe8khKN

[Kiko Pangilinan @kikopangilinan]

SOLID BLOC 11: THIS IS NOT SENATE INDEPENDENCE BUT A BOYCOTT OF DUTY

The Solid Bloc 11 minority senators were present today for the 5 p.m. resumption of session, ready to work, ready to vote on pending bills and ready to keep the Senate running, but the majority led by SP Cayetano chose not to show up.

They did not even have the courtesy to inform us when they ignored the rules, and could not extend the basic decency of telling the minority that they had no intention of convening.

Let us focus on the work, because the Senate has serious business before it, and if the majority wants to protest, deliver privilege speeches or defend its position, the proper place to do that is on the floor, not by making the chamber stand still.

Ang Senado ay hindi pag-aari ng iisang may hawak ng gavel. Institusyon ito ng taumbayan at napakadaming mahalagang panukala ang nabibinbin dahil sa drama ng mayorya.

Important measures were left hanging because of the majority’s boycott, including the Magna Carta of Barangay Health Workers, the Anti-Hospital Detention Bill, the confirmation of generals before the Commission on Appointments and the bills granting Philippine citizenship to Bennie Boatwright III and Matthew James Ramos.

Let us call this for what it is: the claim that this is about Senate independence is false, because what happened today was about the rule of law, public accountability and a lawful process before the Ombudsman and the Sandiganbayan that no senator, no bloc and no presiding officer controls.

This is a boycott because of the arrest of Senator Jinggoy Estrada, and the public should not be asked to believe another convenient line from a leadership that has repeatedly twisted the truth.

Today was a step toward accountability in a controversy that the public has long demanded action on, and after years of people asking why nothing was happening in flood control investigations, it is unacceptable to suddenly call the rule of law an attack on the Senate.

Is Senate President Alan Cayetano now questioning the rule of law?

Sa totoo lang, ang gusto nila ay kampihan, hindi prinsipyo. Gusto nila sumama kami sa boycott, patahimikin ang Senado at gamitin ang minority para manatili ang Senate President sa puwesto habang iniiwasan ang tunay na test of numbers sa floor.

This may be the first time in decades that Senate work stopped because the presiding officer himself refused to work, because even during typhoons and the height of the pandemic, work was suspended only because of necessity or because systems still had to be set up, not because the leadership chose a boycott of duty.

The public has every right to ask whether SP Cayetano is repeating what he did in the House of Representatives, when questions were raised about a leader refusing to step aside, refusing to convene and holding up proceedings when the numbers were no longer certain.

The question now is just as serious: will they do this again for the next two session days, and will they keep the Senate idle simply to avoid facing the numbers on the floor?

The Senate should open its doors, call the session to order and return to work, because no Facebook post, no appeal to institutional pride and no political drama can erase the basic duty of senators to show up, follow the law and serve the people.

And lastly, we call on the Filipino people to watch the Senate closely, because when an institution refuses to work, public vigilance becomes the people’s first line of defense.

[Richard Heydarian @RichHeydarian]

QUESTION: why JINGGOY can post BAIL!? Diba PLUNDER is non-bailable?

[Polly Liwanag @palubogpalitaw]

Yeeeeeesssss!!!! Angas talaga ng minority!!!! @iampinglacson @sotto_tito @kikopangilinan @risahontiveros @erwintulforeal @Idolraffyishere @bamaquino @WinGatchalian74 @jvejercito @migzzubiri Lito Lapid

[Kiko Pangilinan @kikopangilinan]

Ang force majeure ay natural disaster o calamity o sa legal terminology ‘Acts of God’ na wala na sa kamay ng tao.

Man made disaster naman at hindi force majeure ang warning shot ni Aplasca, ang barilan sa Senado at ang pagtakas ni Bato.

[DJ Chacha @_djchacha]

"Wag subukan ang kakayahan ng galit na sambayanan." - Former Senator Frank Drilon

[Mariz Umali @marizumali]

JUST IN: The CIDG has filed its complaint for obstruction of justice against Sen. Robin Padilla and five others before the National Prosecution Service shortly before 5 p.m. today, a source said. @gmanews

[Torey Canino-Celis @tj_canino]

THE CASES OF MAGIC 13 🪄

Escudero - plunder, graft
Villanueva - plunder
Estrada - plunder, malversation
Marcoleta - plunder
Villar siblings - market manipulation/insider trading
Go - co-perpetrator/ICC
Dela Rosa - ICC
Padilla - obstruction of justice

GOD SAVE THE PHILIPPINES!

[Win Gatchalian @WinGatchalian74]

How could there have been any action or discussion before the Committee on Rules when no Committee on Rules has been organized to date?

The timing raises a question that the public deserves to hear debated openly. If the proposal is truly defensible, then let it pass through the proper route.

We owe it to the people who voted for us to do our mandate.

[Heidi Mendoza @HeidiMendoza45]

Grabe. Ang pinakasukdulan talaga ay yung tangang mayabang.

Maipasok lang ang sariling katwiran, gagamitin na ang batas na parang goma — iuunat, pipilipitin, babaluktutin — para lang mapaboto ang katotong pinaghahanap ng hustisya.

Sorry, patola ako ngayon, kasi hindi ko talaga kayang unawain kung bakit tayo nagbabayad ng buwis para paswelduhin ang mga ganito.

Hindi na nga sumusunod sa batas, ipinagyayabang pa ang kamangmangan. Excuse po ba sila sa Constitution? May special lane ba ang katangahan sa Senado?

Indeed, the punishment of wise men is to be ruled by unwise men. Pero marami sila, kaya “men” na rin. Collective noun na yata ang kabobohan.

At kung maiinis kayo dahil kesyo nagmamarunong ako, i-block n’yo na ako. Walang pilitan dito. Hindi ko obligasyong gawing daycare ang wall ko para sa mga allergic sa common sense.

Hindi tayo uunlad sa ganitong klaseng pag-iisip: yung mali na nga, ipinipilit pa; yung batas na nga, ginagawang suggestion; yung accountability na nga, ginagawang favor sa tropa.

Kaya please, trolls at DDS, huwag muna kayong magtambay sa wall ko. Bad trip ako today. 😡

[Celmari-BOS☘️🇵🇭 🇺🇸 @iamcelmari]

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[Kiko Pangilinan @kikopangilinan]

JOINT STATEMENT ON THE SENATE MINORITY WALKOUT

We strongly condemn what appears to be an attempt to rush a major change in the Senate Rules, especially when several members of the minority still wanted to speak and raise serious questions on the floor.

Bakit kailangang madaliin? Bakit kailangang pigilan ang mga gustong magsalita? Bakit kailangang i-divide ang house kung marami pang senador ang nagtatanong tungkol sa proseso?

Minamadali ba ang rule change na ito dahil gusto nilang maka boto si Senator Bato? At ngayong may mga ulat na may mga majority senators na maaaring arestuhin?

We walked out because what happened on the floor looked less like orderly deliberation. The proposed rule change affects how senators may attend sessions, participate in proceedings and exercise their mandate through remote means, and such a measure should be opened to healthy public debate instead of being rushed by the tyranny of the majority.

We have always welcomed healthy discussions on the floor, but this should mean allowing all members to be heard, not forcing the chamber to move at the speed preferred by the majority.

At the time the motion was taken up, there was no duly constituted Committee on Rules and there was not even an elected Majority Leader who could properly guide a rules amendment through the regular process.

How could there have been any action or discussion before the Committee on Rules when no Committee on Rules has been organized to date?

With due respect, the answer that no Senate rule had been violated does not settle the matter, because the rules cannot be treated as a matter of convenience when the very process for amending them is under serious question.

The timing raises a question that the public deserves to hear debated openly. Kaya pinili naming tumayo at iwan ang majority sa plenary. Kaya kami nagdesisyon to question the quorum and call for adjournment.

If the proposal is truly defensible, then let it pass through the proper route.

We owe it to the people who voted for us to do our mandate. This is why we want more time to discuss this further.

[Richard Heydarian @RichHeydarian]

Pwede MAKULONG & DISQUALIFIED for LIFE si EX-CONVICT ROBINHOOD if found guilty of AIDING BATO as ICC FUGITIVE!!!