BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara In just seven weeks after his administration was formally inaugurated in late June of this year, President Bongbong Marcos transmitted to Congress his government’s proposed budget for 2023, otherwise known as the National Expenditure Program (NEP). The NEP details...
Senate Committee on Finance Senator Sonny Angara on Wednesday, December 7 said he is optimistic that the proposed P5.268-trillion budget of the government for next year would revitalize the country’s economy after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is a budget for national recovery. It’s...
The Marcos administration’s first national expenditure program underwent thorough scrutiny and was subject to intense debates by lawmakers before it was ratified. Senate Finance Committee chief Senator Sonny Angara gave this assurance when he presented the bicameral conference committee report on...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday night, December 5, expressed her frustration at the way Congress failed to demonstrate its “power of the purse” with the full restoration of confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) that have been slashed during the budget deliberations at the Senate....
Senator Sonny Angara on Monday, November 28 said the Senate will work for the continued grant of financial assistance or “ayuda” to support the sectors that really need it and are still feeling the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Angara, chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and who is...
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara Every year on April 9 we honor our war veterans during the commemoration of the Araw ng Kagitingan or the Day of Valor. We remember how Filipino and American soldiers fought hand-in-hand against the Japanese in their invasion of the Philippines in 1942. For 93 days...
Senators are in agreement that the country’s health workers deserve to receive a higher salary and be paid their benefits for their role in the government’s COVID-19 pandemic response. But lawmakers cannot say if the government has sufficient funds to agree to their demands of a monthly minimum...
Voting 21-0-0, the Senate has approved its version of the P5.268-trillion national budget—the first of the Marcos administration’s appropriations measure—on third and final reading. Both the Senate and House of Representatives will now take up the 2023 budget measure at the bicameral...
Senators on Tuesday, November 22 called for an increase in the disability pension of disabled veterans which has remained stagnant for almost three decades already. Sen. Jinggoy Estrada said there is an urgent need to upgrade the 28-year old disability pension of disabled veterans, noting that the...
Both the Senate and the House of Representatives are looking to speed up the naturalization process so that the 6’6” American cager Justin Brownlee, Ginebra San Miguel import, could play for Gilas Pilipinas in the February window of the FIBA Basketball World Cup Asian qualifiers. American...
The creation of a Select Oversight Committee on Confidential and Intelligence Expenses will help ensure that agencies who are given confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) would be able to use this specific appropriation for the purpose it was intended for, Senate Committee on Finance chief Sen....
BETTER DAYS Senator Sonny Angara The Senate recently wound up its deliberations on the proposed 2023 national budget, which is the first under the new administration of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. We have ensured that our committee’s proposal aligns with the administration’s...
