SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta Have you ever been on the wrong end of a "paluwagan" scheme wherein you didn't get a full payout since you were the last person in line to receive the pooled fund? This is the exact scenario that SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta wants to avert with the...
Three people--including two officials of a cold storage facility--were cited in contempt Tuesday, March 7 by the House Committee on Agriculture and Food during the panel's ongoing inquiry on the agricultural hoarding issue. SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta (Screenshot from Zoom) This, after...
SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta confronted alleged "Sibuyas Queen" Lilia Cruz on Tuesday, Feb. 14 regarding the alleged bouncing checks that the latter used in the past to pay onion farmers. Lilia Cruz (left) and SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta (Screenshots from Zoom) Marcoleta, one...
SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta recently learned first-hand just how handsomely Filipino construction workers in Guam are getting paid. (Alexander Mils/ Unsplash) Marcoleta took part in a fact-finding mission in the United States (US) territory that lasted from Dec. 11 to 15. The mission...
SAGIP Party-List Representative Rodante Marcoleta (House of Representatives) Rodante Marcoleta, 69, is now on his sixth term as the Social Amelioration and Genuine Intervention on Poverty (SAGIP) Partylist representative. The SAGIP Partylist lists as its goals "poverty reduction, social protection...
SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta has admitted to being blown away by the background checking prowess of the people behind the Commission on Appointments (CA), which he is a member of. SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta (Facebook) "Mayroon kaming isang section na talagang napakahusay...
Listen to people with "sensible legal advice". SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta (left) and Senator Risa Hontiveros (Facebook) This was SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta's advice to Senator Risa Hontiveros following their tit-for-tat during the Nov. 23 Commission on Appointments (CA)...
SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta thinks that a Cabinet official of the Marcos administration might get bypassed by the Commission on Appointments (CA) due to lack of time. SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta (Facebook) In an interview over state-run Radyo Pilipinas over the weekend,...
The controversial shutdown of the giant ABS-CBN network was revived today, Wednesday, November 23 during a public hearing by the Commission on Appointments on the proposed confirmation of the appointment of Gamaliel Asis Cordoba as Commission on Audit (COA) chairman. Cordoba was the National...
SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta scolded National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) Chairman Gamaliel Cordoba Wednesday, Aug. 24 for supposedly being remiss in investigating the shuttered ABS-CBN after the House of Representatives denied the network's application for franchise renewal back...
Albay 2nd district Rep. Edcel Lagman has "corrected" the claim that the recent deal between the shuttered ABS-CBN and TV5 violated the latter network's franchise. TV5 logo "There is no franchise issue," Lagman, an independent minority solon, said in a letter to House Speaker Martin Romualdez on...
Two congressmen have filed House resolutions (HRs) seeking an inquiry in aid of legislation on the recent partnership that was forged by local media giants TV5 and ABS-CBN. TV5 logo (top) and ABS-CBN logo (Wikipedia) READ: https://mb.com.ph/2022/08/11/tv5-abs-cbn-announce-landmark-deal/...