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DEVELOPMENT BUDGET COORDINATING COMMITTEE BRIEFING: Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, assures officials of the Department of Budget and Management, led by Secretary Benjamin Diokno, that the committee will scrutinize the proposed 2017 national budget in a transparent and consultative manner. ”We will work closely with the country's economic managers and all our government agencies, and consider our constituents' concerns to ensure that the national budget for 2017 will indeed be a budget for real change,” Legarda said. Also in photo are Senators (from left) Nancy Binay, Sherwin Gatchalian, and Panfilo Lacson. (PRIB Photo by Cesar Tomambo / 30 August 2016)