Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano and sister, Senator Pia Cayetano has called on the government to intensify the promotion of the Estate Tax Amnesty program so that more Filipinos can benefit once the measure seeking to extend its period of availment is enacted into law. The siblings call...
Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III on Wednesday, March 11 expressed his support on suggestions to allow its employees to work from home as part of efforts to conserve energy in response to the conflict in the Middle East. Senate Secretary Mark Llandro Mendoza, the Senate leader said,...
Senator Rodante Marcoleta, on Monday, March 9, criticized the response to the allegations raised by a group of former military personnel in connection with the Senate’s ongoing investigation into alleged anomalies in the government 's flood control projects. In a privilege speech, Marcoleta...
Senate President Pro Tempore and Blue Ribbon Committee Chairman Panfilo "Ping" Lacson believes that if one does not know how to compute the truth, he should not talk about numbers. Lacson stressed this on Saturday, March 7, so that one does not risk flunking the believability test, particularly in...
Senators called on authorities on Wednesday, March 4 to launch a manhunt on the suspects who brutally killed a freshman maritime student in Cavite supposedly through initiation rites. “I condemn, in the strongest terms, the recent hazing death of 19-year-old Mark Kenneth Alcedo, a first-year...
The Senate has adopted a resolution that called on the Philippine government to take immediate and decisive steps to ensure the safety, protection and repatriation of Filipinos and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the Middle East amid escalating tensions and conflict in the region. Senate...
Senators on Tuesday, March 3 supported the proposal to give President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. the authority to reduce or suspend fuel excise taxes as global oil markets react to the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri said...
The Senate on Monday, March 2, concurred in the ratification of the treaty between the Philippines and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons. Proposed Senate Resolution No. 315 seeks to enable persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) to serve their...
Senator Imee Marcos stated on Tuesday, Feb. 3, that it 's the Senate 's duty to examine the alleged cash delivery scheme involving former military personnel. In a statement, Marcos said that the inquiry is not about whether the affidavits of the eighteen former members of the Armed...
Two senators on Monday, March 2 have expressed their readiness to serve as senator-judges in case the impeachment bid against Vice President Sara Duterte reaches the Senate. “An impeachment complaint from the people—if it is transmitted by the House and if it is heard by a Senate as an...
Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Monday, March 2 defended himself against critics who questioned him for not scheduling the 18 former military personnel to the Senate investigation into the anomalous flood control projects saying this may turn into a circus. Lacson is...
The Senate on Monday, March 2, approved on third and final reading Senate Bill No. 1823, which resets Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao 's (BARMM) first regular parliamentary elections to the second Monday of September this year. During Monday 's plenary session, 21...
