Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr. presented 23 proposed legislations the adminis-tration wants Congress to prioritize when President Benigno Aquino III convened on Monday, February 28 for the first time the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC).
Six more priority bills were added to the previous 17 initially lined up by Cabinet members to include the proposed anti-trust law, protection and security to whistle-blowers, amendments to the Witness Protection Program, creation of a water regulatory body, government procurement reforms, and defining the powers and functions of the Department of National Defense.
According to Ochoa, the priority bills reflect the Aquino Administration’s 16-point agenda for human development, infrastructure development, economic development, sovereignty and security and good governance, as well as the targets under the integrated Medium-Term Development Plan.
The list of administration-backed proposals also includes commitments of the President in his first State of the Nation Address in July last year, such as giving flesh to the constitutional provisions that prohibit monopolies and penalizing anti-competitive deals, strengthening the law on witness protection and providing security and benefits to whistle-blowers.
"All the 23 proposals went through benchmarking, goal-setting, and prioritization process during various Cabinet workshops and the succeeding meetings of the Cabinet Clusters," Ochoa said. "In determining the measures to be included in our priorities, we reckoned with four parameters: people, resources, legal basis, and political objectives," he added. /MP
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