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The 13-committee House Legislative Energy Action Development (LEAD) Council must also provide ample attention to the problem of rising unemployment in the country. Thus, said Cavite 1st district Rep. Jolo Revilla, who cited the latest Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data which showed renewed...

Economic managers have suggested before congressmen a 20 percent reduction in non-essential maintenance and operating expenses (MOOE) as part of a calibrated response to elevated fuel costs that may lead to faster inflation and slower economic growth. This was floated during the first hearing of...

House Legislative Energy Action Development (LEAD) Council presiding officer Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Miro Quimbo couldn 't help but conclude based on an economic manager 's statements that there was indeed an oil cartel operating in the country. During the first LEAD Council...

Murang Kuryente Party-list Rep. Arthur Yap has suggested what he described as a "more intelligent" use of the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) amid the economic hardships that the country is going through due to the fuel price crisis. Yap made this pitch during the first marathon hearing of the...

The House of Representatives took the first hearing of 13-committee Legislative Energy Action Development (LEAD) Council very seriously. An unheard of 170 out of the 318 members of the lower chamber was listed as the peak attendance of the energy crisis council hearing around noon Wednesday, April...