Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas is up in arms over the restoration of the P10-billion budget of the controversial National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in the proposed 2023 national budget, which is nearing enactment. Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday night, December 5, expressed her frustration at the way Congress failed to demonstrate its “power of the purse” with the full restoration of confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) that have been slashed during the budget deliberations at the Senate....
House Speaker Martin Romualdez has expressed high hopes on the proposed P5.268-trillion national budget, which moved one step closer to enactment Monday, Dec. 5, after Bicameral Conference Committee meetings on the measure were concluded. House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) “With...
The Bicameral Conference Committee hearings on the P5.268-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) have wrapped up, with the leader of the House of Representatives contingent calling the measure "a very good budget". Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Screenshot from YouTube live) The approval...
The second and most likely final Bicameral Conference Committee meeting between the House of Representatives and the Senate on the proposed P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 will take place Monday, Dec. 5, the Manila Bulletin learned. (Unsplash) The site of the meeting will be the Manila...
The House leadership is confident that the Senate will agree to the former's P77-billion institutional amendments to the proposed P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023, saying this would augment funds for education, health, transportation and other critical social services. House Speaker Martin...
Realign the alleged P9.3-billion confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) in the proposed 2023 national budget into cash assistance or "ayuda" to poor Filipino families. ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Screenshot from Zoom) ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro made this appeal to...
The bicameral conference committee on Friday, November started tackling the P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 of the Marcos administration, including the proposals for the realignment of confidential and intelligence funds (CIF), that are lodged under the Office of the Vice President (OVP)...
House leaders have guaranteed the enactment of the proposed P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 before the end of the current year, possibly even before Christmas. The House contingent to the budget bicam meeting on Nov. 25, 2022 (Speaker's office) “We have sufficient time, we will finally...
Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos achieved another milestone in his young political career on Friday, Nov. 25. House (left column) and Senate contingents to the budget bicam meeting (Speaker's office) This, after neophyte solon Marcos took part in the first day of the Bicameral...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Thursday said he expressed his reservation on the P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 which the Senate unanimously approved on Wednesday night, November 23. Although he still voted for the approval of House Bill No. 4488, or the...
The Senate has ratified the bicameral conference committee report on a bill repealing Republic Act (RA) 10000, or the Agri-Agra Reform Credit Act of 2009, to enhance access of agricultural communities to financial services and programs that increase productivity. Senator Cynthia Villar, chairperson...
