Senator Loren Legarda (right), chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, chats with Vice President Leni Robredo before the start of a Senate hearing discussing the 2017 proposed budget of the Office of the Vice President (OVP). Also discussed during the hearing were the budgets of the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation, National Housing Authority, and the Social Housing Finance Corporation.