MANILA, Philippines ? A member of the House of Representatives on Monday proposed a P1 allocation for each lawmaker?s pork barrel or Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) to ensure that the fund would not be used for the 2010 election campaign.

The amount originally allotted to congressmen and senators as their PDAF in the 2010 budget proposal by Malacanang could be re-channeled to meet the shortages in teacher positions, classroom, textbooks, chairs, and laboratories in public school, Representative Teddy Casino said at the minority?s weekly news conference.

Casino?s proposal directly runs counter with the earlier proposal of Sorsogon Representative Jose Solis to increase the PDAF of each lawmaker by P30 million.

Each congressman receives P70 million and each senator gets P200 million under the current budget.

Casino said increasing lawmakers? pork barrel allocation increases the risk of government money being spent for the 2010 elections.

He said lawmakers can instead propose projects under line items of departments under the proposed budget.

?The threat of one-peso budget has always been used by Congress to get what it wants from an agency. Perhaps it is time congressmen get a taste of their own medicine,? he said.

?Let?s allocate one peso for the pork barrel and let the various nominated projects of congressmen undergo line item budgeting and the public scrutiny it deserves,? he added.