By Leila B. Salaverria
Philippine Daily Inquirer
1:39 am | Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
Hope is dimming for the passage of the freedom of information (FOI) bill in the House of Representatives, after the committee vote on its approval Tuesday was delayed when the heated discussion got mired in technical procedures and what one lawmaker called “minute” issues.
Despite motions by some lawmakers to put the consolidated FOI bill to a vote, public information committee chairman Ben Evardone adjourned the hearing, saying they had run out of time since the plenary session was about to start at 4 p.m. and there were still many issues to resolve at the next hearing.
As it turned out, there was no plenary session as there was no quorum on the floor. The House adjourned before 5:30 p.m.
The FOI committee hearing ended amid boos from the bill’s advocates who were on the sidelines, hoping for the bill’s approval in committee so it could be forwarded to the plenary for debate and approved on final reading before the end of the year.
The committee did not even get to discuss the merits of inserting a right of reply proviso in the bill, which several lawmakers expected would be controversial.
Most of the two hours devoted to the FOI bill were monopolized by Nueva Ecija Rep. Rodolfo Antonino, who raised the supposed failure of the technical working group—headed by FOI proponent Rep. Lorenzo Tañada III—to hold a hearing to tackle Antonino’s version of the bill that contains a right of reply provision.
The TWG reviewed the different versions of the FOI bill that were filed and came up with a consolidated measure which was submitted to the public information committee for deliberations and approval.
Tañada said he was “dismayed” by Evardone’s handling of the committee hearing and acknowledged that the chances of the FOI bill being passed were getting slimmer.
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