In less than 10 minutes, the Senate adopted the 2025 budget of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) on Wednesday, Nov. 13. No senator came forward to interpellate and raise questions pertaining to the P733-million budget proposed by the Senate finance committee chaired by Senator Grace Poe. OVP's...
Former President Rodrigo Duterte (PPAB) Former president Rodrigo Duterte, in his first appearance at the House quad-committee (quad-comm), faced several relatives of victims of alleged extrajudicial killings (EJKs) during his administration’s war on...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte (Keith Bacongco/ MANILA BULLETIN) If former president Rodrigo Duterte indeed makes an appearance at the House of Representatives on Wednesday, Nov. 13, he shall expect to go face-to-face with the relatives of alleged...
Senator Joel Villanueva underscored the need to ensure that sufficient funding is allocated for the implementation of enacted laws. Villanueva, Senior Vice Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Finance, pointed out that a 2023 Department of Budget and Management (DBM) report revealed that over 200...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte will confront members of the House quad-committee investigating the previous administration’s bloody war on drugs on the cancellation of the scheduled hearing on Wednesday, Nov. 13, after the former chief executive accepted the invitation. Former president...
Senator Imee Marcos laid out three areas to focus on with the imminent return of President-elect Donald Trump, considering the substantial shifts in U.S. policies, particularly those that could impact immigration, defense, and geopolitical interests. “Let’s not wait for the hammer to...
Former President Rodrigo Duterte (Senator Bong Go’s Facebook page) The chairmen of the House quad-committee (quad-comm) has generously offered to shoulder the travel and accommodation expenses of former president Rodrigo Duterte in a bid to...
Arturo Lascañas (screenshot of video presented in quad-comm hearing) The bombshell allegations of Arturo Lascañas, a self-confessed member of the Davao Death Squad (DDS), have been brought to the fore against former president Rodrigo Duterte and his close...
Multiple reports of violators on the EDSA busway seemed to prompt Senator Raffy Tulfo to ask the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) the question: "Where are your big bikes for catching violators?" He brought this up during the plenary budget deliberations led by Senate Committee on...
Sanson "Sonny" Buenaventura (Screenshot from Facebook livestream) House Assistant Majority Leader Nueva Ecija 1st district Rep. Mika Suansing has expressed doubts on the credibility of quad-committee (quad-comm) witness Sanson "Sonny"...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte (left), Superman's chest (Facebook, SupermanWiki) Ex-president Rodrigo Duterte is "Superman", his former long-time driver-bodyguard Sanson "Sonny" Buenaventura told the House quad-committee (quad-comm) during its...
Sen. Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla has filed a bill seeking to provide Indigenous Peoples (IPs) a bigger share of revenues generated from natural resources within the territories of indigenous cultural communities. Padilla, who chairs the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities and Muslim Affairs,...
