Sen. Joker Arroyo tagged as "the thriftiest legislator for 20 straight years"

The Philippine Star’s Christina Mendez (via ABS-CBNNews.com) reports that "last-term Senator Joker Arroyo is leaving a legacy as the thriftiest legislator for 20 straight years," as data from the Commission on Audit (COA) showed that "Arroyo only spent a total of P31.687 million in 2011."

The report further noted: "Arroyo was followed in the ’thrift category’ by Sen. Franklin Drilon, chairman of the Senate committee on finance, who spent P34.9 million in the same period, then by Senators Panfilo Lacson with P37.115 million and Sergio Osmeña with P37.680 million."

For more on this story, read The Philippine Star article posted on ABS-CBNNews.com.