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New National Bureau of Investigation Director Magtanggol Gatdula should know better: Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson never - and will not - use past associations to keep him from performing his duty.

Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson on Wednesday threw his full support behind a move to slash the pork barrel funds of lawmakers in the 15th Congress, saying it is a positive step towards helping the country get back on its feet.

Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson called on his fellow senators Monday to heed the International Parliamentary Union (IPU)'s resolution to allow Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV to attend regular Senate sessions.

Get all the perpetrators including the masterminds, lock them up, and throw away the key. This is the only way for the Arroyo government to redeem itself after it allowed a violent carnage in Maguindanao province and showed signs of going easy on the suspected masterminds, Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson said Thursday.

Instead of settling for another "political solution", President Arroyo must now go hammer and tongs against the perpetrators of Monday's gruesome massacre in Maguindanao province - and shoot the perpetrators if necessary.

Now that he has withdrawn from the presidential race, Sen. Francis Escudero should now focus his efforts to fight off pretenders to the presidency next year.

The so-called resolution seeking to dismiss an ethics complaint against Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. was not derailed but merely put in its proper place.

Nothing to be surprised about. This was how Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson on Wednesday described the junking by the House of Representatives of the impeachment complaint against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez.

Everything is transactional. The C-5 mess started and is about to end using transactional politics. One question immediately comes to mind - what did the 12 senators vote on? There is not even a committee report out for deliberation on the floor.

So as not to further bloat the country's P230-billion budget deficit as of October 2009, Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson has suggested that a P12-billion fund for victims of "Ondoy", "Pepeng" and similar recent calamities be sourced from government savings and other untapped fund sources.