The Senate has terminated the plenary debates on the proposed P5.268-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) early Friday, November 18. On the last day of the period of interpellations, the Senate approved the budgets of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) at P9.7-billion; the Department...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) and the Office of the Ombudsman have agreed on their mandates and vowed to strengthen collaboration. This developed after Senate President Juan Miguel F. Zubiri met the two heads ARTA Director General Ernesto V. Perez and Ombudsman Samuel Martires for a dialogue...
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva supported a Senate resolution filed by Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri creating a Senate Select Oversight Committee to make sure intelligence and confidential funds are spent responsibly. The Senate should definitely exercise the “power of the purse”...
Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri filed on Wednesday, Nov. 16 a resolution forming a Select Oversight Committee to investigate government agencies’ use of their controversial confidential and intelligence funds amounting to P9.2 billion. This followed objections by the Senate...
Former senators have urged the Senate to activate the committee that would exercise congressional oversight on how government agencies with intelligence and confidential funds (CIFs) are using their budget. “We have organized and activated a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has urged the Senate to increase the Department of Education’s (DepEd) capital outlay for Special Education (SPED) for 2023. Gatchalian, chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic Education, said the agency’s capital outlay budget for SPED should be increased from...
The Senate finance committee deemed the proposed P75.858 billion budget of the Optical Media Board (OMB) for 2023 to have been submitted for plenary decision. This after Senator Jose ‘’Jinggoy’’ Ejrercito Estrada, a movie actor and producer, failed to push through with his recommendation...
The Senate minority bloc has vowed to move for the realignment of the confidential and intelligence (CIF) funds under the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Department of Education during the period of amendments of the proposed P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023. Both the budget of...
If Congress will write the check, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) may soon have its own building at the reclamation area in Pasay city. Sen. Grace Poe proposes an increase in the 2023 budget of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the construction of its own building. During her...
The Senate has approved the budget of the Judiciary for 2023 at the plenary level. The Judiciary’s budget includes the funds for the Supreme Court, lower courts, Presidential Electoral Tribunal, Sandiganbayan, Court of Appeals and Court of Tax Appeals. Sen. Sonny Angara, chairman of the Senate...
The gig economy is defined as a labor market characterized by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs. Throughout history, the gig economy is a vital one, with gig workers (aka freelancers) taking up temporary or project-based work. They are hired to...
The Department of Education (DepED) on Monday, Nov. 14, welcomed the approval of the Senate for its 2023 budget. DepED / MB Visual Content Group Issuing a statement, DepED expressed gratitude to the Senate for approving the budget of the department and its attached agencies for the Fiscal Year (FY)...
