Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos may be new to the role of House majority leader, but he already thinks like a hard-nosed veteran.

Case in point: the 31-year-old recommended to the House leadeeship to begin the daily plenary sessions at 2 p.m., an hour earlier than the customary 3 p.m.

Agreeing with Rep. Marcos that the slight tweak will have a huge impact on the currently reorganizing House of Representatives, Speaker Martin Romualdez gave his go signal. What better way to ensure that the House members hit the ground running than by giving themselves a headstart?

"I mean it's not a big change but we can do a lot more with that time and a lot more can be done within that one hour time span," Rep Marcos said on Wednesday, July 30, the first day that the change was implemented.

Wednesday was only the third session day of the 20th Congress' first regular session. Rep. Marcos was elected majority leader--the Speaker's right-hand man--only last Monday, July 28.

"Given the fact that the House is in the process of organizing itself by appointing its chairpersons, its members to the committees, and of course going through the bills that were filed before the resumption of session, we have a lot on our plate right now," said the presidential son.

"And so, in order to expedite that I thought it would be prudent for the House to start session at two instead of three," he noted.

For the past two days, Rep. Marcos has been busy electing House members to committee chairmanships; the faster these panels are filled up with warm bodies, the faster that the House can tackle the thousands of bills filed.

"Do the math, that's a lot of bills to go through on the floor so we're trying to get the House organized as quickly as possible. We're trying to get through these bills referred to the appropriate committees as fast as possible so the House can get to work as quickly as possible," he explained.

Session days are held Monday to Wednesday.

Asked if the earlier sessions would be a thing for the entire 20th Congress, Rep. Marcos said no.

"It's just until the House gets organized, ah ganun talaga kapag first week ng Kongreso, hindi pa fully functional (that's really the case when it's the first week of Congress, it's not fully functional yet)...so ah it's not going to be a regular occurrence, but just in the interest of productivity until we get everything organized ah we'll be starting it."

In a Facebook post the same day, the majority leader said he was "deeply committed to advancing the administration’s legislative priorities, measures that will bring real and lasting progress to every Filipino".

"We aim to pass laws that create jobs, expand access to education and healthcare, support our farmers and fisherfolk, protect the environment, promote good governance, and uplift the lives of the most vulnerable," Rep. Marcos said.

"With the strong cooperation of Congress and the Executive branch, we will work tirelessly to turn vision into reality for a stronger, more inclusive, and forward-looking Bagong Pilipinas," he further said.