LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE AMENDMENTS: Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. gets inputs from (from left) Assistant Budget Secretary Eduardo Opeda, Local Government Legal Counsel Emeterio Moreno Jr. and Vistor Endriga, president of the Philippine Association of Local Treasurers (Philtra) during the hearing today (May 18, 2006) on the proposed amendments to the Local Government Code. With Pimentel is Senator Alfredo Lim. (Photo by: Romeo Bugante, SENATE-PRIB)