SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta Will SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta give a hard time to Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Teodoro Herbosa during the latter's confirmation hearing? Such is the question on the minds of observers in Congress...
OFW Party-list Rep. Marissa "Del Mar" Magsino (Facebook) OFW Party-list Rep. Marissa "Del Mar" Magsino is seeking a budget increase of more than P1 billion for the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) in 2024. This, as Magsino noted during the House...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (PPAB, Facebook) Placing a "genuine educator" at the helm of the Department of Education (DepEd) will solve the supposed learning crisis in the country, a teacher-congresswoman...
CHEd Chairman Popoy de Vera (left), Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin (PPAB) The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd), through its budget sponsor in the House of Representatives, declared that it cannot "dictate" to students the narrative of martial...
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee (Facebook) AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee was able to secure a commitment from the Insurance Commission (IC) for the revocation of a circular that would have imposed a whopping 400 percent increase in minimum...
Late former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr. (Wikipedia) A Makabayan lawmaker is up in arms over the inclusion of a pro-martial law subject in the proposed school syllabus of an Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)-backed think tank. Kabataan Party-list Rep....
Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel (Rep. Manuel's office) Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel felt compelled to remind a House colleague about his educational attainment Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 20 during the plenary discussion on the Department of...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan (left), President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Facebook, Speaker’s office) President Marcos outsmarted rice smugglers when he had some 4,000 sacks of smuggled rice distributed to poor families in...
Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel (Rep. Manuel's office) The usually stoic Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel was visibly elated to learn Tuesday night, Sept. 19 that the Department of Tourism (DOT) had no allocation for confidential funds in the...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The House Committees on Accounts and on Welfare of Children have taken a stand to spread awareness on the menace that is child trafficking and spur the public to fight it through the special screening of a film dubbed "Sound of Freedom". ...
Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Facebook) The P5.768-trillion General Appropriations Bill (GAB) for 2024--the largest proposed national budget in history--is first and foremost a post-pandemic recovery measure. Committee on Appropriations Chairman, Ako...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (Facebook) Oil companies made numerous requests to House Speaker Martin Romualdez but offered nothing concrete in return during their consultative meeting Monday, Sept. 18 on the fuel price surge problem. Thus, said...
