House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez is pushing passage of a bill seeking to create an independent government agency that would be tasked to focus on programs protecting the environment. Rodriguez, in filing House Bill No. 3794, or “An Act Creating the National Environmental Protection Agency of...
A House of Representatives panel has recommended passage of a bill that would guarantee allocation for the procurement of medicines and other community health requirements needed by indigent patients. Medicines The House Committee on Local Government has unanimously approved House Bill 10392 that...
The Makabayan bloc underscored the urgency of enacting a bill that would prohibit the substitution of candidates due to withdrawal as its members filed its own legislative proposal on Friday, Oct. 15. Makabayan bloc2 The six-man progressive bloc in the Lower House assailed reported plans of certain...
A senior House of Representatives official has filed bills that will prohibit substitution of candidacy after the deadline for filing and make mandatory the resignation of an incumbent elective official who is running for another position. 2C6CC7A3-D67C-43CD-B308-23B74134B2BA Deputy Speaker and...
The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill which seeks to standardize the retirement benefits to be given to judiciary officials. House deputy speaker and Cagayan de Oro 2nd District Representative Rufus Rodriguez (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez’ Facebook page) House Bill...
House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez is seeking passage of a bill that would abolish the Marcos regime-created Philippine International Trading Corp. (PITC). The Cagayan de Oro City representative said the PITC, an attached agency of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), is also hounded by...
House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez has stressed the need to scrap the Procurement Service - Department of Budget and Management (DBM-PS) following the issues and controversies hounding the government procurement agency. In filing House Bill No. 10222, Rodriguez said national government...
House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez on Wednesday urged the government to accelerate efforts to get more Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines into the country as takers of the Russian-made jabs fear losing the efficacy of the first dose of their shot. Rodriguez said almost 300,000 Filipinos who were...
Deputy Speaker and Cagayan De Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez on Friday, Sept. 10 called for an end to the “hijacking” of some P160-billion government funds through the so-called “For Later Release (FLR) system. Rep. Rufus Rodriguez pix Rodriguez said the FLR is unconstitutional because...
Members of the House of Representatives quizzed vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. over the reported delays in the signing of multi-party agreements (MPAs) for the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines by local government units and the private sector. Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. presents updates on...
The Office of the Ombudsman is willing to absorb the P710.88 million that the Department of Budget and Management slashed from its original budget proposal if the fund can find better use in efforts of government to fight the devastating 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Ombudsman logo...
With 202 affirmative votes and zero negative votes, the House of Representatives on Tuesday, August 31 approved on final reading a bill exempting from all taxes the importation of critical medical supplies, essential goods, inputs, raw materials and equipment urgently needed during times of public...
