MANILA.
The House of Representatives' ethics committee early evening yesterday voted 35-3,
with one abstention, to recommend the 45-day suspension of Taguig-Pateros Representative
Alan Peter Cayetano.
Cayetano
had been facing expulsion charges filed by First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo
and members of his family who the solon accused of maintaining multimillion-dollar
bank accounts in Germany.
The
committee's recom-mendation to suspend Cayetano will be submitted to the plenary
for adoption or rejection, possibly on Congress' last session today.
The
House needs a two-thirds vote to adopt the recommended sanctions.
The
motion recommending Cayetano's suspension was made by Camarines Sur Rep. Luis
Villafuerte when the committee resumed session.
Earlier,
the ethics committee, chaired by Bohol Rep. Roberto Cajes, had voted to terminate
Cayetano's presentation of evidence but decided not to go into executive session
to deliberate on the sanction to recommend against the Taguig-Pateros solon.
Before
this, a House fact-finding mission that went to Germany presented a bank certification
stating the Arroyos own no such account. | 
