Nancy Binay, Cayetano set aside ‘differences,’ discuss bills for poor kids

Senator Nancy Binay. INQUIRER.net file photo

MANILA, Philippines — Despite their “political differences,” Senator Nancy Binay presided over a hearing on Tuesday on proposed legations initiated by her father’s known critic, Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano.

Binay and Cayetano even sat beside each other during the hearing of the Senate committee on social justice, welfare and rural development on two bills providing for the welfare and protection of orphaned, abandoned, and neglected and voluntarily committed children.

When recognized to introduce his measures, Cayetano thanked the lady senator for prioritizing his measures “despite our political differences.”

“First of all, I’d like to thank the chair that despite our political differences e, pinrioritize n’ya tong bill na ito (she still prioritized this bill)…” the Majority Leader said of Binay.

Cayetano is among the senators who are actively participating in the Senate blue ribbon subcommittee’s investigation into allegedly anomalous transactions in Makati City when Binay’s father, Vice President Jejomar Binay, was still the city mayor.

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