PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Our brother Oscar was 13 and we were 9 years old when we lost our dearest, loving 45-year-old mother Casimira to tuberculosis in September 1945, which left us with vast emptiness for a long time. Growing up in our hometown Dagupan, Oscar...
Nueva Ecija Third District Rep. Rosanna “Ria” Vergara chided the Department of Finance for taking an adamant stand against moves to suspend collection of excise tax on fuel as way of protecting Filipinos from the impact of uncontrolled price hikes in petroleum products. Rep. Ria Vergara...
House Deputy Speaker and 1PACMAN Partylist Rep. Mikee Romero on Thursday, Oct. 28 appealed for “urgent affirmative action” on the proposed “Eddie Garcia Act” that is pending in the Senate amid the controversy over the fatal shooting accident in the set of the US film “Rust" recently...
Enactment by year end of the proposed P5.024-trillion national budget will be on schedule after the House of Representatives made good is pledge to submit the 2022 spending plan on or before October 27. Speaker Velasco receives NEP Speaker Lord Allan Velasco disclosed that the Lower House sent to...
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...
Deputy Speaker and Buhay Partylist Rep. LIto Atienza on Tuesday, Oct. 19 said presidential candidate former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. need not apologize for the alleged excesses committed to the country by his late father but he must admit and recognize that these happened. Rep....
PEACE-MAKER Former Speaker of the House Jose C. De Venecia Jr. We Filipinos should take pride that a fellow Filipino now shares the Nobel Prize stage with some of the world’s great men and women, like Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway,...
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco has vowed to transmit to the Senate the proposed P5.024-trillion General Appropriations Act on October 27 to ensure the timely enactment of the measure. Speaker Lord Allan Velasco3 This after a five man committee in the Lower House consolidated the proposed amendments to...
The decision of the House of Representatives to recall the third reading approval of a bill that seeks to institutionalize the 1989 agreement between the University of the Philippines and the Department of National Defense is in violation of the chamber's rules. UP-DND ACCORD Seven House members...
Davao del Norte First District Rep. Pantaleon “Bebot” Alvarez has filed his certificate of candidacy for reelection as congressman Monday, Oct. 4, before the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) office in the province. This is the third and final term of Alvarez, who is running under Partido...
PEACE-MAKER Former Speaker of the House Jose De Venecia Jr. Since the onslaught of the deadly COVID-19, our wife Gina and we have been staying in our Dagupan City home, which is a short walking distance from the Lingayen Gulf, where General Douglas MacArthur and, earlier, General Masaharu Homma...
Instead of joining next year’s presidential race, former Speaker and Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano on Friday, Oct. 1 offered contenders his help drawing a five-year plan to battle COVID-19 and resuscitate the economy. Former Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano “So I’d like to thank everyone...
