FOREIGN AFFAIRS BUDGET SUBMITTED: Finance Chairman Senator Franklin Drilon, with the assistance of Department of Foreign Affairs Undersecretaries Jose Brillantes and Rafael Seguis, defend the proposed budget of the department for FY2012 as Senator Vicente Sotto III interpellates during the plenary session, Wednesday, November 16, 2011. According to Drilon,66.33% or P7.2 billion of the total P10.9 billion proposed budget of the DFA will be spent abroad. The DFA budget was submitted Wednesday morning. (PRIB Photo by Alex Nuevaespaña)