BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO
Bacolod Rep. Greg Gasataya was elected chairman of the Commission on Appointments Committee on Labor, Employment, Social Welfare, and Migrant Workers, and as vice chairman of the CA Committee on Public Works during the commission’s first plenary session at the Senate yesterday.
Senator and CA chairman Juan Miguel Zubiri administered the oath of the members of the CA.
Gasataya became a member of the Commission on Appointments on August 3.
He was among the 10 initially elected members of the Commission as moved by House Majority Leader Manuel Jose “Mannix” Dalipe during a regular session of the House of Representatives.
The Commission on Appointments is a constitutional body composed of members the House of Representatives and the Senate with the power to approve or disapprove appointments made by the President, the confirmation of which is required by the constitution.*
