THE Senate Committee on Local Government will hold another public hearing in Marawi City next week before submitting its committee report on the Malacanang-backed proposal to postpone the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) polls originally scheduled for August this year to 2013.

Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, committee chairman, emphasized that there is a need to conduct further hearings as to provide the bases for any conclusions in the eventual committee report.

Marcos emphasized that It is his intention to issue the committee report as soon as possible and had hoped to have done it sometime next week.

The senator expressed confidence that after that hearing in Marawi his committee will have the proper bases for a complete committee report which he will bring to the floor soon after the hearing.