Date of Birth:
Place of Birth: Cantilan, Surigao del Sur
Occupation: Businessman
Religion: Roman Catholic
Civil Status: Separated
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Elementary:
High School: St. Peter's Seminary, 1966
College: BS Commerce - De La Salle University, 1970
TRACK RECORD:
1998-present Representative, First District of Surigao del Sur, House of
Representatives
1998 Owner, Carlo Publishing; Carlo Commercial Printing
Chairman, Committee on National Defense
CAMPAIGN SPENDING:
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Expenditures | |
Commission on Audit Report Covering January 1 to | |
Salary | P420,000.00 |
Representative’s Foreign Travel | P539,624.67 |
District Field Staff Allocation | P650,000.04 |
Contractual Consultants | P120,000.00 |
Research | P396,000.00 |
Consultative Local Travel | P994,440.00 |
Communication | P129,600.00 |
Supplies | P120,000.00 |
Public Affairs Fund | P308,400.00 |
Central Office Staff | P2,704,977.81 |
Equipment/Furniture & Fixtures | 0 |
Total | P6,388,042.52 |
Livelihood, Education, Disaster Management and Environment, Alternative Energy Resources, Defense and National Security, and Youth and Sports Development
HOUSE BILLS SPONSORED/AUTHORED:
Status: Approved by the House on 2006-08-30, transmitted to on 2006-09-07
and received by the Senate on 2006-09-07
HB05557- AN ACT SEPARATING THE FELISBERTO VERANO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL - TIGAO ANNEX IN BARANGAY TIGAO, MUNICIPALITY OF CORTES, PROVINCE OF SURIGAO DEL SUR, FROM THE FELISBERTO VERANO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, CONVERTING IT INTO AN
INDEPENDENT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TO BE KNOWN AS THE TIGAO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
Status: Approved by the House on 2006-08-30, transmitted to on 2006-09-07
and received by the Senate on 2006-09-07
HB05702- AN ACT ESTABLISHING A MORE COMPETITIVE AND REALISTIC SALARY SCHEME FOR CAREER EXECUTIVE SERVICE (CES) OFFICIALS
Status: Pending with the Committee on CIVIL SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL
REGULATION since 2006-08-22
HB05908- AN ACT DECLARING THE SUBA CAVES IN BARANGAY TINA, MUNICIPALITY OF SAN MIGUEL, PROVINCE OF SURIGAO DEL SUR, AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
Status: Approved on Third Reading on 2006-12-20
HB05940- AN ACT CONVERTING THE MUNICIPALITY OF TANDAG INTO AN INDEPENDENT COMPONENT CITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE CITY OF TANDAG
Status: Substituted by HB05999
HB05952- AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE SURIGAO DEL SUR SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE AND FREEPORT IN THE MUNICIPALITIES OF CARRASCAL, CANTILAN, MADRID, CARMEN, AND LANUZA, PROVINCE OF SURIGAO DEL SUR, PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Status: Approved on Third Reading on 2006-12-20
HB05999- AN ACT CONVERTING THE MUNICIPALITY OF TANDAG IN THE PROVINCE OF SURIGAO DEL SUR INTO AN INDEPENDENT COMPONENT CITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE CITY OF TANDAG
Status: Approved by the House on 2006-12-20, transmitted to on 2006-12-21
and received by the Senate on 2006-12-21
HR01126- RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOOD GOVERNMENT TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY IN AID OF LEGISLATION INTO THE ALLEGED PRIVATIZATION OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL GENERATION ASSETS BY THE POWER SECTOR ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
MANAGEMENT CORPORATION (PSALM CORP) IN VIOLATION OF THE EXPRESS MANDATE OF THE ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY REFORM ACT OF 2001 (EPIRA)
Status: Adopted Resolution (Pending with the committee on GOOD GOVERNMENT
since 2006-03-29)
HR01285- RESOLUTION PROPOSING THE REVISION OF THE 1987 CONSTITUTION
Status: Pending with the Committee on CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS since
2006-07-25
HR01289- RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE COMMITTEE ON GOOD GOVERNMENT TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, INTO THE ALLEGED HIGHLY IMPROPER INTERVENTION BY THE
WORLD BANK AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL FUNDING ORGANIZATIONS IN THE BIDDING PROCEDURES OF FOREIGN FUNDED PROJECTS AND THE IRREGULARITIES IN THE BIDDING PROCESSES IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS AND/OR AGENCIES OF GOVERNMENT, PARTICULARLY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
AND HIGHWAYS TO DETERMINE THE NECESSITY OF ENACTING REMEDIAL LEGISLATION
Status: Pending with the Committee on RULES since 2006-07-25
HR01306- RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOD GOVERNMENT TO CONDUCT AN IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION INTO THE ALLEGED LEAKAGE IN THE JUNE 11-12, 2006 NURSE LICENSURE EXAMINATIONS TO DETERMINE WHETHER CONCERNED GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS WERE GUILTY OF MISFEASANCE AND/OR MALFEASANCE AND TO REVIEW THE PERTINENT LAWS ON THE MATTER IN ORDER TO SAFEGUARD THE INTEGRITY OF SAID EXAMINATIONS
Status: Adopted Resolution (Pending with the committee on CIVIL SERVICE AND
PROFESSIONAL REGULATION since 2006-08-07)
STAND ON CHARTER CHANGE ISSUE:
Even as the House committee on constitutional amendments has already approved House Resolution 1230 containing proposed amendments to the Constitution, Rep. Prospero Pichay said he was planning to introduce his own resolution with his proposed changes to the Charter.
And the Surigao del Sur congressman claims that his House Resolution 1285 has more signatures than the one that the committee approved.
Pichay said he would introduce his resolution when the entire House debates on HR 1230, which bore 173 signatures when it was introduced.
Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Constantino Jaraula, chair of the committee on constitutional amendments, House Speaker Jose de Venecia and Majority Leader Prospero Nograles are among the principal authors of HR 1230.
As of yesterday, Pichay said his resolution had “more or less the required three-fourths vote or 193 votes” needed for the House to approve constitutional revisions without Senate participation.
Pichay said he had also talked to some senators who were “very receptive” to his proposals.
Under Pichay’s resolution, all current members of Congress will constitute the interim parliament with parliamentary elections to be held on the second Monday of November 2007.
In the Jaraula proposal, it is the interim parliament that will set the date for “the first election under the new system.”
Pichay said his proposed amendments had a “good chance” of succeeding compared to those of HR 1230 because the latter included a concurrent resolution calling for the holding of a constituent assembly which has already been sent to the Senate.
Jaraula explained that HR 26, which was approved by the plenary November 2005 and which proposed to convene Congress into a constituent assembly to approve amendments to the Constitution, was the first of a two-step process to introduce amendment proposals. This was what was sent to the Senate.
The second step is HR 1230 which contains the actual proposed amendments to lift economic restrictions and abolish the presidential-bicameral system, replacing it with a parliamentary-unicameral system. This has yet to be approved by the plenary and has yet to be sent to the Senate.
Pichay argued that “Congress, once in session, had the power to revise the constitution” so there was no need for a concurrent resolution or, having passed one, to send it to the Senate for approval.
“If there is already a three-fourths vote in the House of Representatives, then it is not necessarily a requirement to get votes from the Senate,” Pichay said.
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