Practice question
A department head’s question-hour appearance is scheduled under Section 22. A committee memorandum asks for secrecy, but the President has made no written statement that State security or public interest requires an executive session. Officials say the memorandum alone satisfies the particular presidential-statement condition stated in Section 22. Which answer is best?
- Any committee memorandum is automatically the President’s written statement.
- No written statement is ever relevant to Section 22.
- The condition is satisfied whenever any private witness prefers secrecy.
- The memorandum alone does not satisfy the specified presidential written-statement condition; any other claimed basis for a closed sitting must be assessed separately.
- Section 22 commands executive session for every question hour.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VI: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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