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BUDGET HEARING: Senate Finance Committee chair Sen. Loren Legarda listens to Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Mel Senen Sarmiento as he explains the proposed 2016 budget of the department and its attached agencies during a Senate hearing Tuesday, September 28. Sarmiento vowed to implement reforms in the DILG and assured the committee that the proposed budget of Php 125.32 billion will not be used for partisan politics in the 2016 elections. (PRIB Photo by Alex Nuevaespaña/28 September 2015)