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reaction about the million people march to abolish the pork barrel or known also as PDAF

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Comandante, Stephanie Anne A. BSE 4A

Atty. Joseph Cabasa August 30, 2013

Legislative Department Protesters march during a rally at Rizal Park last Monday, August 26, 2013 to call for the scrapping of a corruption-tainted development fund, known as Priority Development Assistance Fund. The protesters ranged from members of the clergy and students to businessmen, middle-class families, lawyers and other professionals, in a sign of anger over graft corruption. For us to further understand how is the legislative department connected to the rally last Monday, let’s define the following: Legislative is derived from the latin Lex, Legis meaning Law. The term Law refers to statutes which are written enactments of the legislature governing the relations of the people among themselves or between them and th government and its agencies. Legislative Branch broadly deals with the making, deliberation over, enactment, amendment and repealing of laws. There are two basics structures for legislative branches of government these are Unicameral and Bicameral. Unicameral is the legislative branch consists of one chamber/house while Bicameral is the legislative branch consists of two chamber/house. The Philippine Congress is the country’s legislative department. (Art.VI, Sec.1) Congress is bicameral under this is the upper which is the Senate and lower house which is the House of Representatives. The rally last Monday is called "million people march" and it is one of the largest public demonstrations was a call to the government to abolish the pork barrel or otherwise known as Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF). What is Pork Barrel in the first place? It is the fund given to each member of the house of representatives and senate in order to give assistance to their constituents much faster. In short the legislative department which comprises both the house of representatives and the senate has the discretion to disburse the said fund accordingly. Since the so called pork barrel fund came from taxes that my parents and relatives that they are paying, the call last Monday was made by the taxpayers themselves to voice out their sentiment to the government pertaining the pork barrel scam or also known as Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF).

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