The Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda-led Committee on Ways and Means will give way to another House panel regarding the chamber’s inquiry on the onion price surge and agricultural smuggling.
Salceda had this to say Monday, Feb,. 6, noting that he had “sought advice” from House Speaker Martin Romualdez on the matter.
“But at certain point, he says, that he recognizes the jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means,” Salceda said of Romualdez, Leyte’s 1st district congressman. The ways and means panel last held a hearing on the related issues last Jan. 23. It was during that meeting that the names of 10 alleged big-time agricultural smugglers were mentioned by Suldan Kudarat 2nd district Rep. Horacio Suansing Jr.
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