(Eagle News) — Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday, Aug. 7, filed a resolution “expressing the position” of the House of Representatives that it and the Senate will vote separately once they convene into a Constituent Assembly to propose changes in the Constitution.
“Whereas, the House of Representatives is taking the same position of the Senate thereon,” House Resolution 2056 said.
The move essentially breaks the deadlock between the Senate and the House of Representatives then-headed by Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez, who said that the House alone could muster the 3/4 votes needed to propose changes to the Constitution.
Senators slammed Alvarez for his position, saying the Senate would be rendered irrelevant, contrary to the spirit of the Constitution, if such was the case.