Tag page - oversight

Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva supported a Senate resolution filed by Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri creating a Senate Select Oversight Committee to make sure intelligence and confidential funds are spent responsibly. The Senate should definitely exercise the “power of the purse”...

Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri filed on Wednesday, Nov. 16 a resolution forming a Select Oversight Committee to investigate government agencies’ use of their controversial confidential and intelligence funds amounting to P9.2 billion. This followed objections by the Senate...

Former senators have urged the Senate to activate the committee that would exercise congressional oversight on how government agencies with intelligence and confidential funds (CIFs) are using their budget. “We have organized and activated a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and...

Fixing a 35-year-old "oversight" of the country in the International labor scene is among the top priorities of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III during his year-long stint as chairman of the International Labor Organization's (ILO) Government Group. (Mark...