Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (Facebook) The House Committee on Appropriations is willing to consider the Office of the Ombudsman's suggestion to do away with the publication requirement for Commission on Audit (COA) audit reports. Committee chairman...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) House Deputy Majority Leader and ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo believes that the national identification (ID) card system--once properly implemented--can help stop the falsification of...
Bicol Party-list Rep. Zaldy Co (left), Vice President Sara Duterte (Facebook) The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has told the House Committee on Appropriations that the 2022 release of contingent funds by the Office of the President (OP) to the Office...
P3PWD Party-list nominee Rowena Guanzon (X) P3PWD Party-list nominee and proud kakampink Rowena Guanzon says she doesn't have intelligence funds, only sheer intelligence. This was Guanzon's tongue-in-cheek pronouncement in an X post Wednesday, Sept....
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan (Facebook) Why wait on China on the "Bicol Express" project if there's a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) option? Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan is urging the Department of Transportation...
Vice President Sara Duterte (left), ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Facebook, Rep. Castro's office) Stop hurling pot shots and just answer the issues directly. This, in a nutshell, was House Deputy Minority Leader ACT Teachers Party-list...
Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (Rep. Salo's office) A ranking congressman is seeking to revise the "outdated" Magna Carta of Public Health Workers, also known as Republic Act (RA) No. 7305. By filing House Bill (HB) No.9127, Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Screenshot from YouTube live) A ranking House member has rejected Ombudsman Samuel Martires' proposal to not publish the Commission on Audit's (COA) audit observation memoranda (AOM). "I think that the practice of...
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee (Facebook) Implementing electronic licenses is the "long-term solution" to the plastic license card woes hounding the Land Transportation Office (LTO). AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee had this to say even as the...
(Unsplash) A Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) official-turned-congressman is prodding his fellow lawmakers to join him in his mission to fix the Philippine penal system. In a recent privilege speech in the House of...
DND Secretary Gibo Teodoro, House Minority Leader Marcelino Libanan (Facebook. PPAB) Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilbert "Gibo" Teodoro Jr. shared a little known fact about House Minority Leader Marcelino "Nonoy" Libanan during the...
ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro A teacher-turned-congresswoman is eyeing a "thorough investigation" on the reported three-million decrease in the number of enrollees for school year (SY) 2023-2024. ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro, a...