MANILA, March 15 -- Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Wednesday said all legislative measures, including the two on the proposed constitutional convention (con-con), have been "deliberated extensively and exhaustively" from the committee level up to the plenary hall.

Romualdez made the remarks after some lawmakers questioned the haste by which the House is pushing for Charter change.

He said the passage of Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) No. 6 and its accompanying bill, House Bill (HB) 7352, calling for a hybrid con-con to propose amendments to the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution, was done with a clear mission to amend the Charter's restrictive provisions to attract more foreign investments and create high-paying and qu...