Sen. Imee Marcos said on Monday, February 5 that foreign investors and locators never once mentioned anything about amending economic provisions in the 1987 Constitution. Sen. Imee Marcos during the first Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes on Monday, Feb. 5, says...
Retired Supreme Court Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. reiterated his firm and unchangeable stand that there are no valid, serious, and compelling reasons to amend the 1987 constitution. Retired Justice Hilario Davide Jr., a member of the 1986 Constitutional Commission, voices his objections...
The Senate will not succumb to pressure of a deadline when discussing the proposed economic provisions that are raised under Resolution of Both Houses No. 6, senators assured on Monday, February 5. Sen. Sonny Angara, chairperson of the subcommittee of the Committee on Constitutional...
Sen. Robinhood Padilla has filed a resolution seeking to have both houses of Congress vote separately in amending the 1987 Constitution. In Resolution of Both Houses 7, Padilla, who chairs the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes sought to amend Section 1 of Article...
The Senate will merely focus on the proposed amendments on the economic provisions of the Constitution and nothing else when they start tackling the Resolution of Both Houses No. 6 on Monday, February 5, senators said. Sen. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara said that what the Senate will do is...
Quezon 2nd district Rep. David "Jay-jay" Suarez (left), Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Mannix Dalipe (Facebook) Senators should "walk the talk" on the "ceasefire" that they declared with the House of Representatives on the issue of...
House Majority Leader Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Mannix Dalipe (left), former president Rodrigo Duterte (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Majority Leader Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Mannix Dalipe has asked former president Rodrigo...
Senator Imee Marcos on Thursday, February 1 urged her brother President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to abandon the push for a People’s Initiative (PI) that he and his allies in the House of Representatives had started. Marcos said she cannot understand why the President has...
Rizal 1st district Rep. Jack Duavit (Facebook) Rizal 1st district Rep. Jack Duavit is optimistic that things will begin to "simmer down" between the House of Representatives and the Senate now that the senators have committed to take up...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives expects the Senate to stand by its word and approve Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) Ho. 6 by March to accelerate the proposed amendments to the economic provisions of...
Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on Wednesday, Jan. 31, thanked President Marcos for his continued trust and confidence but said she also respects her father’s and brothers’ opinions about the Chief Executive despite not agreeing with all of them. (From left) President...
Sen. Grace Poe said that the focus on the joint voting by Congress made the so-called People's Initiative for Charter change (Cha-cha) flawed at the onset and that the attention instead should have been on explaining the provisions that required amendments in the 1987 Constitution. Sen. Grace...
