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00:00The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability
00:06called for the use of the Continental Funds of the Office of the Vice President and the Department of Education.
00:11At one point, Vice President Sara Duterte asked Congressmen in one of her former offices.
00:18Jonathan Andal reported.
00:20Did you certify to the correctness of the liquidation reports on the use of the DepEd Confidential Funds?
00:31Mr. Chair, we don't have a partner here. We don't have a point of order for us.
00:36How can you ask a resource person without giving him copies?
00:41Mr. Chair, point of order, Mr. Chair.
00:43Madam Vice President, please wait to be recognized.
00:46Give him copies.
00:48Vice President Sara Duterte fell down while Congressmen asked her former special disbursing officer in DepEd, Edward Fajarda.
00:57Gate of Vice, why didn't you immediately give a copy of the document to the staff?
01:01At this point, Vice President Duterte and Congresswoman Franz Castro also answered.
01:06Representative ACOP is asking our resource person, why is it that the Vice President is batting?
01:14Yes, ma'am.
01:15The point of order is proper.
01:17We don't have a point of order.
01:19One minute to cease declared petition.
01:21Well, point of order.
01:22When the hearing was suspended, the Vice President was allowed to go to Congressmen.
01:30Four of the staff were present at the hearing.
01:32They were first contempted and arrested by the committee because they did not attend the hearing several times.
01:37But the Chief of Staff of the Vice President, Atty. Zulaika Lopez, who is still at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center,
01:43in Lopez's excuse letter, he was not able to go because of acute stress disorder.
01:48What his doctor is not saying here is that he is not physically incapable of attending today's hearing.
01:59I just find it a little bit odd, Mr. Chair, that it was not mentioned here that because of his condition, he will not be able to come.
02:11Because Lopez did not attend the hearing and because of what happened this weekend,
02:15the committee decided to add five more days for the contempt order against Lopez.
02:20I move, Mr. Chair, that the period of detention of Atty. Lopez be ten days instead of five days.
02:30Because he will not be able to attend today's hearing.
02:34We saw in the history of his evasive attitude, behavior,
02:42and what he created that he is lying that he was not harassed or barged in.
02:51The room is already included.
02:54So all of the things that happened, Mr. Chair.
02:57Contempt order against Atty. Lopez was issued by congressmen who are allies of the Duterte, as well as by the Vice President.
03:04Point of the Vice President.
03:05Why is it that in his excuse letter to four DepEd officials,
03:10the President is receiving resignations from Assistant Secretaries and Undersecretaries,
03:15as well as the Appointing Authority?
03:17Madam Vice President,
03:18I'm sorry, sir.
03:19I asked you, who is the Appointing Authority?
03:22Yusef of ASEC.
03:23What is your answer?
03:24Secretary.
03:25You don't know.
03:26I haven't answered yet.
03:27I saw you answer.
03:30Camera.
03:33I saw you answer.
03:34You said Secretary.
03:35You don't know everything.
03:37One minute resets.
03:38One minute suspension is declared by the Chair.
03:42The tension escalated and the Vice President asked to reconsider the extension of the contempt order against Lopez.
03:48You need to reconsider that extension of your detention.
03:52It was illegal in the first place.
03:54You asked the President why he accepted the resignation.
03:59Do not ask due process.
04:02If you have any questions, insofar as the actions of this committee are concerned,
04:07I think the proper remedy is for you to go to the court.
04:12Sir, I will go to court.
04:15But every day, you are depriving a person of her liberty while I await.
04:23That is precisely the point, ma'am.
04:25If our action of detaining your Chief of Staff is against the law,
04:31I think the proper remedy, and I think you're a lawyer,
04:34the proper remedy is to go to the court.
04:37Sir, do you really want to show the Filipino people what you know about the law?
04:42That is the decision of the committee as a whole.
04:45I'm just helping you, sir, because the Filipinos are embarrassed.
04:49Is this how the House of Representatives works?
04:52Jonathan Andal reporting for GMA Integrated News.