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The Senate Committee on Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations of the Senate of the Philippines, or more popularly known as the Blue Ribbon Committee, is the Senate committee tasked to investigate alleged wrongdoings of the government, its officials, and its attached agencies, including government owned and controlled corporations, in aid of legislation, that is, the primary ...
Committee Chairperson Party Vice Chairpersons Members by bloc Total Members Majority Minority Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations (Blue Ribbon) Pia Cayetano: Nacionalista: 3 12 1 17 Accounts: Alan Peter Cayetano: Independent: 2 9 1 13 Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Reform: Cynthia Villar: Nacionalista: 3 12 1 17
For the 19th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines, he is currently the Chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee and the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights. He is the Senate Representative in the Judicial and Bar Council and is also one of the Senate Representatives in the Commission on Appointments.
Philippine Senate Committee on Civil Service, Government Reorganization and Professional Regulation; Philippine Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes; Philippine Senate Committee on Cooperatives; Philippine Senate Committee on Cultural Communities
Neri v. Senate (G.R. No. 180643) is a controversial 9–6 [2] ruling of the Supreme Court of the Philippines which affirmed the invocation of executive privilege by petitioner Romulo Neri, member of the Cabinet of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, regarding questions asked during a Congressional inquiry on the controversial multimillion-dollar National Broadband Network (NBN) Project.
A blue-ribbon committee is often appointed by a government body or executive to report on a matter of controversy.It might be composed of independent scientific experts or academics with no direct government ties to study a particular issue or question, or it might be composed of citizens well known for their general intelligence, experience and non-partisan interests to study a matter of ...
Arroyo chaired the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, the Senate Justice and Human Rights Committee, and the Senate Public Services Committee during the 13th Congress. He claimed to have never traveled abroad on government money and his Statement of Assets and Liabilities remained almost unchanged from the time he entered public service in 1986.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) was embroiled in a corruption scandal in early 2011 after its former budget officer George Rabusa testified in a Senate Blue Ribbon Committee of the pabaon (send-off money) system. The pabaon system refers to the money given to a retiring chief of staff as send-off money.