Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez is eyeing the conduct of so-called constitutional caravans all over the Philippines. Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez speaks during a public consultation of the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments last February...
Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez believes that more and more Filipinos are now realizing the need to amend the 1987 Constitution through Charter change (Cha-cha). Rodriguez, chairman of the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments, cited on Tuesday night, April 4 the results...
The move to amend the restrictive economic provisions of the1987 Constitution appears to have reached a dead end. But a legislative measure could still be refiled as its fate could be subject to a wind of change. This was admitted by Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments Chairman Senator...
There is as yet no indication that the canceled meeting on Charter change (Cha-cha) between Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez and Senator Robin Padilla will push through during Congress' ongoing summer recess. This, after Rodriguez told this reporter that he has yet to get a new...
Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez is elated over the snowballing of support for economic Charter change (Cha-cha) among members of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s Cabinet. On Wednesday, March 29, Rodriguez welcomed Department of Finance (DOF) Secretary Benjamin Diokno...
Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has called out several business groups for walking back on their position to amend the Constitution’s “restrictive” economic provisions. In particular, Rodriguez named the Makati Business Club (MBC) and Financial Executives Institute of the...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez's willingness to discuss other modes of Charter change (Cha-cha) with the Senate should result to a key meeting between the two chambers even during the ongoing legislative recess. “Speaker Martin’s openness to any Senate proposal on how to pursue constitutional...
Albay 1st district Rep. Edcel Lagman said that the local business groups' opposition to the ongoing Charter change (Cha-cha) efforts "echoed the position" of the House members who thumbed down the measure's passage in plenary. "The opposition of six big business groups led by the Makati Business...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez has finally clarified what he told Assistant Majority Leader and Leyte 4th district Rep. Richard Gomez in connection with the Charter change (Cha-cha) issue. In a statement Friday, March 24. Romualdez, Leyte’s 1st district congressman, reiterated that the House was...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte is insisting that the canceled meeting on Charter change (Cha-cha) between Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez and Senator Robin Padilla must still take place, particularly during Congress' summer break. Villafuerte, in a statement...
Will the House of Representatives stick to its proposed constitutional convention (con-con) or switch gears to a constituent assembly (con-ass)? Cavite 4th district Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr., a member of the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments, says it's simply too early to answer that...
The prosposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) and economic Charter change (Cha-cha). House Speaker Martin Romualdez highlighted these two "promising" measures during his speech Tuesday, March 21 at the luncheon meeting with ambassadors of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF)-member-countries...
