Administration Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada has assured public school teachers that he would look into their salaries and benefits to ensure that it would be commensurate with their workload. Estrada made the promise during a recent interview, saying it is one of his priorities as the...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has reintroduced in the 19th Congress the bill which seeks to mandate the appointment of at least two barangay health workers (BHWs) in every barangay and granting them standard salaries and additional incentives. Go, who will again chair the Senate Committee on...
Senator Manuel “Lito” Lapid has filed a measure seeking to mandate government offices to adopt digital systems to expedite transactions and enable them to pay and receive digital currency. The proposed “Use of Digital Payments Act” is part of the initial bills filed by the senator in the...
A House Bill (HB) seeking the establishment of the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR) has been filed by Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez and Tingog Party-list Reps. Yedda Romualdez and Jude Acidre. “It is high time that we create a truly empowered department that will focus on...
All work and no play makes Rufus Rodriguez a dull congressman. In a surprising display of disco moves, Cagayan De Oro 2nd district Rep. Rodriguez took a break from writing bills and resolutions for the 19th Congress by--how else? Dancing. CDO Rep. Rufus Rodriguez dances to Elton John's Crocodile...
Pinuno Party-list Rep. Howard Guintu has filed House Bill (HB) 1041, or the proposed “Free On-Site Living Quarters for Public School Teachers Act". Public school teachers at work (Photo from DepEd/Manila Bulletin) “This bill will address the problems of our public school teachers who need to...
When it comes to Philippine politics, readers of the Manila Bulletin are quite savvy--but always in a hurry. So much in a hurry that most of them may not have realized that some 150 or nearly half of the House of Representatives members in the 19th Congress are either complete neophytes or...
A party-list lawmaker filed a bill in Congress proposing to rename the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) back into the Manila International Airport (MIA), less than a week after a bill was lodged to rename the gateway into the Ferdinand E. Marcos International Airport. (FILE PHOTO/MANILA...
Rookie solon Leyte 4th district Rep. Richard Gomez has filed a bill pushing for the postponement of the Dec. 5, 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BKSE). Leyte 4th district Rep. Richard Gomez (MANILA BULLETIN) As part of the initial salvo of bill filings in the 19th Congress, Gomez...
The 24-member Senate is almost finished selecting chairmen of the chamber's 40 committees in the upcoming 19th Congress, which begins on July 25. The selection was made by senators who form the so-called ‘’Senate supemajority’’ headed by incoming Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri after...
Ensuring the sustainability of vital government programs, raising the level of the country’s education to make it globally competitive, and future-proofing the Philippines for domestic and external shocks make up the first 10 bills that Sen. Pia Cayetano has filed in the Senate for the 19th...
Neophyte lawmaker and Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel filed 10 House bills (HBs) and 10 House Resolutions (HRs) last June 30, or the first day for the fifiling of measures for the 19th Congress. Top-billing the measures is a request for the House to look into the alleged fraud during the May...
