COOP-NATCCO Partylist Representative Felimon Espares (House of Representatives) Felimon Espares, an educator and the voice of cooperatives nationwide, brings to the 19th Congress his 31 years of cooperative movement experience as COOP-NATCCO Partylist representative. The National Confederation of...
AnaKalusugan Party-list Representative Ray Florence Reyes (House of Representatives) Ray Florence Reyes is a healthcare advocate and a business executive that brings his 18 years of experience in various industries to the 19th Congress as Alagaan Natin Ating Kalusugan (AnaKalusugan) Party-list...
Rep. Allan Ty, LPGMA Partylist (House of Representatives website) Allan U. Ty is the representative of the LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) Marketers Association (LPGMA) Partylist in the 18th and 19th Congress. Ty co-founded the LPGMA Party-list in 2003 to protect the welfare of LPG consumers and...
A good development. ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (House of Representatives website) That's how Deputy Minority leader and ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro described the developments in the stateside cases against Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name (KOJC)...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has assured congressmen that using the central bank's dividends on the proposed Maharlika Wealth Fund (MWF) would not have any adverse effects on its gross international reserves (GIR). (Giorgio Trovato/ Unsplash) BSP Deputy Governor Francisco Dakila Jr., made...
P3PWD Party-list nominee Rowena Guanzon was among the first to claim victory for the anti-Maharlika fund movement after the House of Representatives announced that it would no longer tap the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and Social Security System (SSS) as contributors to the planned...
The House of Representatives has passed on second reading a measure granting free legal assistance to uniformed personnel of the government facing charges arising from an incident related to the performance of official duty. The House plenary (PPAB) Through a simple voice vote (ayes vs. nayes),...
The proposed P275-billion Maharlika Wealth Fund (MWF) should be patterned after the tried and tested features of other countries' sovereign wealth funds (SWF). Bagong Henerasyon (BH) Party-List Rep. Bernadette Herrera House Deputy Minority Leader and Bagong Henerasyon (BH) Party-List Rep....
House Deputy Minority Leader and Bagong Henerasyon (BH) Party-List Rep. Bernadette Herrera has used the Chinese mixed vegetable dish "chop suey" to describe the controversial Maharlika Wealth Fund (MWF) being pushed by majority solons. Chop suey (Unsplash) In a statement Wednesday, Dec. 7, Herrera...
A measure seeking to declare as "economic sabotage" the smuggling of tobacco products into the country has been approved on second reading in the House of Representatives. Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos (left) and PBA Party-list Rep. Migs Nograles Through a simple voice vote (ayes vs....
Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas is up in arms over the restoration of the P10-billion budget of the controversial National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in the proposed 2023 national budget, which is nearing enactment. Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas...
A pro-farmer congressman has backed President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s call to utilize technology in improving the state of the local agriculture sector. AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee (left) and President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (MANILA BULLETIN) "Sinusuportahan natin ang...
