Another intense exchange between two senators marred the second day of the resumption of session at the Senate on Tuesday.
This time, Senators Antonio Trillanes IV and Juan Miguel Zubiri traded insults over the former’s allegation in the media that Zubiri and Senator Richard Gordon were allegedly attempting to “whitewash” the Senate’s investigation of the P50-million bribery scandal at the Bureau of immigration (BI).
Zubiri said he took offense at Trillanes’ accusation, saying that after nine years as a member of the House of Representatives and four years in the Senate, he was never accused of “whitewashing,” “stonewalling” or “stopping” any investigation.
It was Zubiri and Gordon, who interrogated Monday the referral to Trillanes’ committee on civil service, government reform and professional conduct of Senate President Pro Tempore Franklin Drilon’s resolution, seeking a possible overhaul of the BI in the light of the bribery scandal.
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