How's this for an accomplishment report by the congressmen? The Speaker Martin Romualdez-led House of Representatives reported on Wednesday, March 22 that it has now approved on third and final reading 23 of 31 measures identified by the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) as priority measures of the Marcos administration since the start of the 19th Congress. Romualdez said in a statement that out of the 23 measures approved by the House, two had been signed into law by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos Jr. while the remaining eight bills in the LEDAC priority list are under advanced stages of deliberation. “We have done our share in passing important pieces of legislation that will help the country recover from the crippling impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and external shocks that adversely affect the economy and the nation,” he said. “That was our commitment during the series of meetings at LEDAC. That is our continuing commitment to the Filipino people,” added the Leyte 1st district congressman. Wednesday is the last plenary session date of Congress before they begin their six-week summer recess. The 19th Congress began in earnest on July 1, 2022 when House members began filing bills and resolutions. Then, on July 25, 2022, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. Identified several priority measures of his then-fledgling administration. These priority measures were then expanded and fleshed out during the first LEDAC meeting last year, resulting to the 31 measures. “We have responded positively to the President’s call for legislation that would hasten the country’s recovery from the pandemic, sustain our economic growth, and implement his Agenda for Prosperity,” added Romualdez, who is arguably Marcos' top ally in the bicameral legislature, which includes the Senate. The two bills the President has signed into law are the SIM (subscriber information module) Registration Act, which is now under implementation; and the measure postponing the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) to October this year. The 20 other LEDAC-endorsed bills approved on third and final reading by the House are the Magna Carta of Seafarers, E-Governance Act / E-Government Act, Negros Island Region Act, Virology Institute of the Philippines, Passive Income and Financial Intermediary Taxation Act, National Disease Prevention Management Authority or Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Medical Reserve Corps, Philippine Passport Act, Internet Transaction Act / E-Commerce Law, Waste-to-Energy Bill, Free Legal Assistance for Police and Soldiers, Apprenticeship Act, Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law, Magna Carta of Barangay Health Workers, Valuation Reform, Eastern Visayas Development Authority, Leyte Ecological Industrial Zone, Government Financial Institutions Unified Initiatives to Distressed Enterprises for Economic Recovery, National Citizens Service Training Program, and Rightsizing the National Government. Another LEDAC bill, the Agrarian Reform Debts Condonation Act, is now for bicameral conference committee approval. The eight other LEDAC bills pending in the House are the Regional Specialty Hospitals (for second reading approval); Enabling Law for the Natural Gas Industry (under technical working group or TWG deliberation); National Land Use Act (TWG); Department of Water Resources and Services and Creation of Water Regulatory Commission (TWG); Electric Power Industry Reform Act (for committee deliberation); Budget Modernization (for committee deliberation); National Defense Act (for committee deliberation); and Unified System of Separation, Retirement and Pension for Uniformed Personnel (also for committee deliberation). “We are working double time to pass the remaining eight LEDAC measures and our own priority bills. We are confident of approving them on third and final reading before the sine die break,”  Romualdez said.