House Deputy Minority leader and Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Zarate has called for the passage of House Bill 5249 or Free Funeral Services for Indigent Families on Sunday, October 31. Zarate lamented that HB 5249 is still pending at the House Appropriations Committee although the House...
Nueva Ecija Third District Rep. Rosanna “Ria” Vergara chided the Department of Finance for taking an adamant stand against moves to suspend collection of excise tax on fuel as way of protecting Filipinos from the impact of uncontrolled price hikes in petroleum products. Rep. Ria Vergara...
House Deputy Minority leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate on Thursday, Oct. 29 slammed the Department of Finance for aggressively pushing for approval of a bill that resulted foregone revenues of P260 billion to government while standing strong against any move to suspend the...
Opposition lawmakers on Tuesday, Oct. 26 urged leaders of the House of Representatives to prioritize the passage of a bill that seeks to repeal the law imposing excise tax on oil products. Makabayan bloc2 House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate and ACT Teachers...
Makabayan bloc senatorial bet Neri Colmenares on Tuesday, Oct. 19 chided Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa for seeking the presidency with the alleged main objective of shielding himself and President Rodrigo Duterte from being prosecuted before the International Criminal Court. Rep. Nery...
The row between Antonio Trillanes IV and the Makabayan bloc in Congress continues to heat up after the former senator criticized the group for failing to endorse Vice President Leni Robredo’s candidacy even when it had at least four of its members in the opposition coalition 1Sambayan. Former...
The Makabayan bloc—composed of progressive party-list groups in the House of Representatives—tried to block opposition coalition 1Sambayan’s nomination of Vice President Leni Robredo as its presidential bet, former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV said. (Former Senator Antonio Trillanes...
The Makabayan bloc underscored the urgency of enacting a bill that would prohibit the substitution of candidates due to withdrawal as its members filed its own legislative proposal on Friday, Oct. 15. Makabayan bloc2 The six-man progressive bloc in the Lower House assailed reported plans of certain...
Lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc on Thursday, October 7, have filed a resolution directing the House of Representatives, through the Committee on Information and Technology, to investigate the alleged use of emergency text alerts system for partisan election campaigns. House of Representatives...
The decision of the House of Representatives to recall the third reading approval of a bill that seeks to institutionalize the 1989 agreement between the University of the Philippines and the Department of National Defense is in violation of the chamber's rules. UP-DND ACCORD Seven House members...
Members of the Makabayan bloc on Saturday, October 2, called President Duterte's retirement from politics a "joke". President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Bayan Muna Representatives Carlos Zarate and Ferdinand Gaite both cast doubts on Duterte's retirement, saying it could just be one of his...
Lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc have slammed anew the "huge'" confidential and intelligence funds of the Office of the President (OP) for 2022. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang file photo) During the House of Representative's plenary deliberation on the proposed 2022 budget on Thursday,...
