BUDGET DELIBERATIONS: Senator Francis Escudero, Chair of Senate committee on Finance, talks to Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales, Civil Service Commission Chair Francisco Duque III (partly hidden), Commission on Human Rights Chair Etta Rosales, and Commission on Elections Chair Sixto Brillantes, before the start of deliberations for the 2014 budgets of their respective agencies, Thursday morning. (PRIB Photo by Joseph Vidal/21 November 2013).