If this (amendment of the Constitution) succeeds, there is no need to hide
pork barrel in the departments since the new Constitution allows it,' he said.
This is an attempt to reverse the Supreme Court decision that
pork barrel in the form of Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) cannot be provided in the national budget.
He said any appropriation for a project listed in the budget law "cannot fall under the term
pork barrel, as such was identified prior to the enactment of the budget.
The three senators, who allegedly demand a share of the
pork barrel money, and the amount of public funds involved, are former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile (P172.
The scam involved the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), a
pork barrel, of a number of senators and members of the House of Representatives.
He spent the major portion of his
pork barrel dotting the province of Cavite with overbuilt (and possibly overpriced) bus stops.
Panfilo Lacson claimed that the proposed 2016 budget contains P424 billion in
pork barrel in the form of lump sum appropriations.
However, when her mother was exposed as the brains behind the
pork barrel scam, which involves setting up fake nongovernmental organisations that accept the
pork barrel allocation of senators and congressmen, but are funneled into her personal bank accounts, the younger Napoles closed all her social media accounts.
Tinio is the author of House Bill 1535 seeking to abolish the controversial
pork barrel fund of members of Congress.
Estrada then expressed confidence that the charges he was facing over his alleged involvement in the P10-billion
pork barrel racket would not affect his chances of seeking another government post.
Pag walang
pork barrel sorry, walang siyang mapapasa sa Congress,'' he said.
One such meme, seen below, rides on the popularity of the scary movie The Conjuring by having the character of the chief antagonist in the
pork barrel scandal, businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, hang from the tree taken from the movie's art work and retitled, The Corrupting.
Consistent with our stand against the
pork barrel system, we have no infrastructure projects.
