Cong. Edgar Chatto presides over the 2024 Budget deliberations with the Commission on Higher
Education (CHED). This was done on August 9, 2024 in Congress. Cong. Chatto of the first district of
Bohol, has been strongly supporting CHED programs and is currently working on the utilization of funds
from travel tax collection as provided in the Tourism Act of 2009, which he authored, to expand the
agency’s programs especially for tourism workers and frontliners. Contributed photo

Cong. Edgar Chatto (right) duscusses important matters with Department of Budget and Management
(DBM) Secretary Amenah Pangandaman during the briefing with the Development Budget Coordination
Committee as the deliberations for the P5.678 Trillion national budget for 2024 began in Congress on
August 10, 2023. Contributed photo