Majority leaders to resolve abolition of Road Board

SENATE MAJORITY Leader Juan Miguel F. Zubiri on Monday said he plans to meet with House Majority Leader Rolando G. Andaya, Jr. to agree on the “parameters of amendments” before the Senate decides on a proposal for a bicameral conference committee to resolve the Road Board abolition.

In an interview with reporters after a caucus by the senators on Monday, Mr. Zubiri said some senators wanted to maintain the Senate position on the issue — which is to adopt the House bill on the abolition of the Road Board — while he and Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto, among others, wanted amendments to the bill to make it more transparent.

For the Senate to adopt the House bill means there would be no need for a bicameral committee, which Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III said is his chamber’s stand.

“Generally, the sentiment was there is no need for a bicam because we have adopted the House version. We tasked Senator Zubiri, the Majority Leader, to talk to the Majority leader of the House, Congressman Andaya, to find out their reasons why there is a possibility that we can go into a bicam .... Nothing official, it’s just talk,” Mr. Sotto III told reporters.