DBM BUDGET HEARING: Finance Committee Chair, Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero, talks Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Butch Abad and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chair Francis Tolentino before the start of a hearing looking into the proposed 2014 budget of the DBM and its attached agencies Wednesday, October 23. (PRIB Photo by Alex Nuevaespaña)