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 assured Filipinos Tuesday, Nov. 29 that it will pursue the retention of earmarked funds for the Department of Transportation's (DOTr) fuel subsidy and "Libreng Sakay" programs under the proposed 2023 national budget. (MANILA BULLETIN) “This is one of the pro-people provisions...
The implementation of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) next year is expected to improve the country's Internet speed. (Headway/ Unsplash) Thus, said House Speaker Martin Romualdez who noted that P1.5 billion worth of funds have been allocated to the Department of Information and Communications...
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...
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...
The House of Representatives leadership revealed on Monday, Nov.,21 the 14 solons that will comprise the chamber's contingent to the Bicameral Conference Committee alongside the Senate on the disagreeing provisions of the 2023 General Appropriations Bill (GAB). (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN)...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III expressed hopes that members of Congress would feel the public pressure to delete the P500-million confidential fund for the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and P150-million confidential fund of office of the secretary of the Department of Education...
The destruction caused by severe tropical storm (STS) "Paeng" still heavy on his mind, House Speaker Martin Romualdez vowed during the Philippine Congress-Bangsamoro Parliament Forum to find additional funds that the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) could use for repairs....
The House of Representatives is backing President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s move of setting aside P206.5 billion worth of cash aid and assistance for vulnerable sectors under the proposed 2023 national budget. House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left) and President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos...
Senior Deputy Majority Leader and Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos has vowed to fight for the earmarking of funds for the construction of a local viaduct in the proposed 2023 national budget. Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos (PPAB) In a press briefing in his district office...
