House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez is prodding the Bureau of Customs (BOC) to file charges against rice smugglers, including those behind the illegal entry of the staple grain through ports in Mindanao. “I...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) The House of Representatives has passed on third and final reading all but two measures identified by the Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) for passage by the end of the...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The House Committees on Accounts and on Welfare of Children have taken a stand to spread awareness on the menace that is child trafficking and spur the public to fight it through the special screening of a film dubbed "Sound of Freedom". ...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has hailed President Marcos' move of raising the farm gate or buying price of palay (unhusked rice), saying it shows...
(MANILA BULLETIN) House Speaker Martin Romualdez defended the more controversial points of the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) on Tuesday, Sept. 19--the same day that former and incumbent solons sought to have the fund declared unconstitutional by the...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (Facebook) Oil companies made numerous requests to House Speaker Martin Romualdez but offered nothing concrete in return during their consultative meeting Monday, Sept. 18 on the fuel price surge problem. Thus, said...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has personally warned emissaries of local oil companies that lawmakers won't hesitate to get tough on them if they turn out to be "part of the problem"--the problem being the...
(Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo has called out local oil firms for one of their more eyebrow-raising tendencies--that of imposing the exact same price adjustments as each other on a near weekly basis. ...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) With Christmas just around the corner, House Speaker Martin Romualdez says he is eyeing a meeting with canned goods manufacturers and other producers of food products in an attempt to stave off an impending price...
(Ali Vicoy/ File photo/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has floated possible ways the government can "compromise" in order to alleviate the impact of surging local fuel prices. This, as Romualdez announced the conduct of a...
The House plenary (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives will have extended work weeks for the rest of the month in a bid to stay on track with its target passage date of the P5.768-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) or...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez neither confirmed nor denied the supposed donation he made to Harvard University and instead said he was respecting the "gift policy" of the centuries-old university in...
