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Budget Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO<\/p><\/div>\n

MANILA, Philippines–The Senate finance committee has rejected Budget Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad’s request to testify on the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) after the President Benigno Aquino III\u2019s State of the Nation Address (Sona).<\/p>\n\n

Instead, the committee agreed to move the hearing originally scheduled Monday, July 21, to Thursday, July 24.<\/p>\n

Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero, chairman of the committee, said Abad wrote the body, requesting that he be allowed to testify before it on\u00a0July 30, or two days before President Benigno Aquino’s Sona on\u00a0July 28.<\/p>\n

In his letter, Escudero said, Abad explained that the Department of Budget and Management, which he heads, was “heavily swamped with preparations for the national budget.”<\/p>\n

Abad also indicated that the DBM was \u201cin the midst of finalizing the proposed 2015 budget and the President\u2019s budget message in preparation for submission to Congress\u201d on\u00a0 July 30\u00a0 as part of the reasons for the postponement request.<\/p>\n

He said he was also involved in drafting the President\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes we understand that the budget season is here. We considered and thus agreed to postpone the hearing but only until\u00a0July 24\u00a0and with the understanding that Secretary Abad should be there,\u201d Escudero said in a statement\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n\n

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