AKO BICOL Party-list Representative Alfredo Garbin Jr., agreed with Veloso, saying that De Lima’s instruction to Dayan was “tantamount to a refusal to obey a lawful order of the (House).”

However, he likewise said that “the jurisdiction doesn’t belong to us, it belongs to the Senate.”

According to the Constitution, the concurrence of two-thirds of the members is necessary to decide on suspension or expulsion.

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