For the second straight year, the House of Representatives is conscientiously organizing an austere State of the Nation Address (SONA) in light of recent events. House Secretary General Cheloy Garafil made the announcement Tuesday, June 9 during the first coordination meeting for President Marcos...
Contracts and agreements under ABS-CBN--including employee or talent engagements and blocktime memoranda with other stations--will be scrutinized by the House Committee on Legislative Franchises after it ordered various government agencies to submit position papers and relevant documents on issues...
House Speaker Isabela 6th district Rep. Faustino "Bojie" Dy III has hailed the immediate directive of President Marcos for all concerned government agencies to mobilize and respond to the the powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck off the coast of Sarangani province. The earthquake down...
Vice President Sara Duterte 's "non-answer" doesn 't even need or deserve a substantive response from prosecutors. Such was the gist of the 11-member House prosecution panel 's manifestation--filed on Monday, June 8--before the Senate impeachment court on the subject of the Duterte...
A vice chairperson of the House Committee on Transportation has called out Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) officials over what he described as "reactive and short-sighted" responses as far as maritime accidents are concerned. Case in point: Parañaque City 2nd district Rep. Brian Raymund...
The House of Representatives granted final approval to the measure designed to curb organized disinformation, troll farm operations and other malicious falsehoods online, and at the same time protect freedom of expression. Passed on third and final reading in plenary before the House adjourned sine...
Ranking House of Representatives members view as a positive development the latest upheaval at the Senate--which has led to the installation of Senator Sherwin Gatchalian as Acting Senate President. Leading Gatchalian 's well-wishers in the lower chamber was none other than House Speaker...
“A nutrition budget is a literacy budget." FPJ Panday Bayanihan Party-list Rep. Brian Poe highlighted this on Wednesday night, June 3 as he hailed the House of Representatives ' passage on third and final reading of House Bill (HB) No. 9466. The proposed statute seeks to transform the...
The House of Representatives has changed for the better, as far as Speaker Faustino "Bojie" Dy III is concerned. Dy, Isabela 's 6th district congressman, proudly made this declaration on Wednesday night, June 3 as the House of Representatives adjourned sine die the first regular session of the...
The House of Representatives has unanimously approved another Marcos administration priority measure, this time one that expands the government’s existing feeding program into an initiative that addresses hunger, malnutrition, and learning poverty among Filipino children. Passed on third and...
The House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved on third and final reading an all-encompassing measure that seeks to establish a permanent national emergency response framework to protect Filipinos from fuel-driven inflation, energy shocks, supply disruptions and future global crises....
The House of Representatives made history on Wednesday afternoon, June 3 by giving final approval to the proposed Anti-Political Dynasty Law--the measure designed to finally implement the anti-political dynasty provision written in the 1987 Constitution. Overwhelmingly passed on third and final...
