Outgoing Senator Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson is hoping senators in the 19th Congress would continue his crusade of tenaciously scrutinizing the national budget and keeping it free from dubious congressional insertions, known as "pork barrel”, and useless appropriations. "I hope somebody will take...
Incoming lawmakers of the 19th Congress attended the commencement of the House of Representatives' “Executive Course on Legislation” on Monday, June 27, to orient both first-time and seasoned solons in the lower chamber. Incoming lawmakers attend the commencement of the Executive Course on...
Outgoing Antique representative and three-term Senator Loren Legarda has been inaugurated for her fourth Senate term in the 19th Congress. Loren Legarda She took oath alongside other Antique officials at the EBJ Freedom Park in San Jose De Buenavista Municipality, Antique Province. “Today marks...
Be humble, undertake researches, review or study rules of the 24-member Senator and review the traditions of the 24-member Senate and you can go no wrong. Senators-elect Mark Villar, Robin Padilla and Raffy Tulfo. (MB Photo) These, among others, were the unsolicited advice of outgoing Senate...
House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco has taken his oath as the re-elected Marinduque lone district representative in the 19th Congress while he shared the stage with Vice President-elect Sara Duterte-Carpio. Outgoing House Speaker and re-elected Marinduque lone district Rep. Lord Allan Velasco takes...
1-Pacman Party-list Rep. Mikee Romero chose the woman of the hour, Vice President-elect Sara Durerte, as the person to administer his oath as reelected congressman in the upcoming 19th Congress. Vice President-elect Sara Duterte (left) and 1-Pacman Party-list Rep. Mikee Romero (Photo from Facebook)...
Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon took her oath on Thursday afternoon, June 23 as P3PWD Party-list representative in the upcoming 19th Congress. (Photo from Rowena Guanzon's Twitter) Guanzon's oath was administered by Court of Appeals (CA) Justice Edwin Sorsogon....
Outgoing Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III on Tuesday, June 21 reported that the Senate passed during the current 18th Congress over 197 of bills of national importance that were eventually signed into law. One bill was vetoed while 182 bills are awaiting action by President Duterte that might...
"We will touch base with the widest women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and children’s rights constituencies in keeping with our reputation as the sole women’s partlylist in Congress.” This was stated by Gabriela Partylist Representative Arlene Brosas when she took her oath of...
House Deputy Speaker Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has promised to refile two electoral reform bills in the 19th Congress: one to ban the substitution of candidates in national and local elections; and another that declares incumbent officials as automatically resigned upon filing of certificates of...
A citizens’ rights group has called on the 19th Congress to endow the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) with greater police power–specifically site blocking–as a means to protect the creative industry from online pirating. CitizenWatch and the IPOPHL...
Senator Sonny Angara said he is leaving it up to the upcoming members of the majority to decide who would be the next Senate leader, but is vouching for Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri to be the next Senate president. Angara issued the statement in an interview saying that...
