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The House of. Representadves

will hold its Plenary session on
wednesdav in Batangas CitY near
* *"*"tion a"ttt"a for families
displaced bY Taal volcano's eruP-
tion House Speaker Alan Peter
Cavetano said on Monday.
The 3oo-strong dnmber
adopted, with no'obi&tions, a
proposal bY Cayetano to hold its
iession at the Batangas CitY Con-
vention Centbr, where the law-
makers #L exPected to discuss the
proposed DePartrnent of Disaster
Resilience @DR) bill, a top Pnonty
of the Duterte afuninistiatiol
The session will be held at 1
p.m. instead of the usual 3 P'rn-
Cayeano said the venue was
chosen due to its Proximity to an
evacuation center where fam.ilies
fl;eing Taal took shelter.
"Our Proiosal is that we
become a committee-of-the-
whole and listen to difreredt
reDresentatives from Batangas,
cavite. and Laguna' and listen
to all those directlY affected"'
the Taguig lawmaker said'
A House leader said the
chamber' might decide to aP-
prove the DDR bill on the same
day.
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