After two years of internal wrangling confronting the traditional and yielding collaboration and coordination between the House of Representatives and the Senate, members of the House of Representatives have finally decided to protest – threatening to reject all “financial instruments” emanating from the Senate. After about three hours of Executive session, it was established that a similar bill was submitted to the House of Representatives and the Joint Committee on Judiciary and Ways, Means and Finance was tasked to report to Plenary during the 2nd Session of 2019. There have been reports that revenue bills or related financial bills over years have mostly been emanating from the Senate, something that the House of Representatives has been silent about, probably to correct the constitutional violations. However, because the violation from the Senate persists, this has prompted members of the Independent Legislative Caucus (ILC) to register disappointments, including Representative Larry Younquoi, Francis Dopoh, and Hanson Kiazolu, with the latest being Representative Gray. During the formal reception of the opening of the 3rd session of the 54th Legislature on Monday, President Pro Tempore Albert Chie openly apologized and vowed to transmit appropriate bills to the House of Representatives to originate from there.

Source: Daily Observer January 15, 2020 02:37 UTC