Outgoing Antique representative and three-term Senator Loren Legarda has been inaugurated for her fourth Senate term in the 19th Congress. Loren Legarda She took oath alongside other Antique officials at the EBJ Freedom Park in San Jose De Buenavista Municipality, Antique Province. “Today marks...
Be humble, undertake researches, review or study rules of the 24-member Senator and review the traditions of the 24-member Senate and you can go no wrong. Senators-elect Mark Villar, Robin Padilla and Raffy Tulfo. (MB Photo) These, among others, were the unsolicited advice of outgoing Senate...
House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco has taken his oath as the re-elected Marinduque lone district representative in the 19th Congress while he shared the stage with Vice President-elect Sara Duterte-Carpio. Outgoing House Speaker and re-elected Marinduque lone district Rep. Lord Allan Velasco takes...
1-Pacman Party-list Rep. Mikee Romero chose the woman of the hour, Vice President-elect Sara Durerte, as the person to administer his oath as reelected congressman in the upcoming 19th Congress. Vice President-elect Sara Duterte (left) and 1-Pacman Party-list Rep. Mikee Romero (Photo from Facebook)...
Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon took her oath on Thursday afternoon, June 23 as P3PWD Party-list representative in the upcoming 19th Congress. (Photo from Rowena Guanzon's Twitter) Guanzon's oath was administered by Court of Appeals (CA) Justice Edwin Sorsogon....
"We will touch base with the widest women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and children’s rights constituencies in keeping with our reputation as the sole women’s partlylist in Congress.” This was stated by Gabriela Partylist Representative Arlene Brosas when she took her oath of...
House Deputy Speaker Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has promised to refile two electoral reform bills in the 19th Congress: one to ban the substitution of candidates in national and local elections; and another that declares incumbent officials as automatically resigned upon filing of certificates of...
Senator Sonny Angara said he is leaving it up to the upcoming members of the majority to decide who would be the next Senate leader, but is vouching for Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri to be the next Senate president. Angara issued the statement in an interview saying that...
Majority Floor Leader and Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez took his oath as reelected solon even as Vice President-elect Sara Duterte stood witness to it on Wednesday morning, June 15. Photo from LAKAS-CMD Media. Sworn in alongside Leyte Rep. Romualdez were Tingog Party-list Rep. Yedda...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday vowed to pursue the passage of the proposed law on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression or the (SOGIE) Equality bill in the upcoming 19th Congress. Hontiveros made this assurance as the nation celebrates Pride Month, saying it would be another...
Senator-elect Robin Padilla today June 14 was briefed by Senate officials on legislative processes that are far different from his days in the movies as an actor and director. ‘'Wala pong hahalaga sa lahat kundi itong mapag-aralan natin kung ano po itong mataas na kapulungan (My studies here at...
In just one day, the Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez-led Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) nearly doubled its membership in the House of Representatives. NEW PARTY MEMBERS--LAKAS-CMD President and House Majority Leader and Leyte 1st d istrict Rep. Martin G. Romualdez administers...
