English: Senator Koko Pimentel, chair of the Senate Committee on Electoral Reforms and People’s Participation, presides over the Bicameral Conference Committee hearing discussing the disagreeing provisions of Senate Bill No. 1198 and House Bill No. 4241, also known as Absentee Voting by Media, which seeks to grant the members of media who are assigned to places other than their place of registration the privilege to participate in electoral exercises, under certain conditions. (PRIB Photo by Albert Calvelo/December 17, 2012)
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