FINANCE HEARING: The Senate Committee on Finance, chair Sen. Franklin Drilon grills officials of the Departments of Budget and Management (DBM) and Finance (DOF) during a hearing on alleged excessive and unwarranted salaries, allowances, bonuses, and other perks of top officials and board members of government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) and government financed institutions (GFIs). Also in photo are (from left): Sen. Tito Sotto, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, DOF Undersecretaries John Philip P. Sevilla, Jr., Jeremias N. Paul, Jr., and DBM Director Mary Grace R. Chua.