Why showcase flood control projects as part of your accomplishment report, then disown them once they become controversial? Sen. Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson pointed this out in his reply to Oriental Mindoro 1st District Rep. Arnan Panaligan, who denied involvement in a damaged flood control project...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said on Wednesday, August 20 that only about forty (40) percent of funding for flood control projects are utilized for implementation. Lacson, in his privilege speech entitled “Flooded Gates of Corruption,” bared this as he slammed the “evident pattern of...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson on Wednesday, Aug. 13, scored an early win in his efforts to ensure transparency in the budget process, after he set two suggestions that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sherwin Gatchalian agreed to. Following a "solution-finding discussion" on Wednesday morning,...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson on Wednesday, Aug. 13, pushed anew to make public the proponents of all amendments - including insertions - in the budget process. Lacson, an eagle-eyed watchdog of the national budget, said this will make the proponents answerable for flood control and other...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson on Tuesday, August 12 commended the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) for skillfully manuevering their ship when they evaded two Chinese vessels off Panatag Shoal on Monday morning. Lacson also mourned the reported deaths of at least two crewmembers which was a result...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said on Sunday, August 10 that he is confident that the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte can be revived and pulled out from the Senate’s archives should the Supreme Court reverses its ruling. Lacson, a member of the Senate minority bloc, said...
Sen. Panfilo "Ping" Lacson on Sunday, August 10 said he has discovered a modus operandi involving lawmaker-contractors that may add to the overpricing or substandard construction - or both - of flood control and other infrastructure projects in the country. The scheme, which he dubbed as...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Friday, August 8 debunked insinuations he “played safe” when the Senate voted to archive the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte. On Wednesday evening, August 6, Lacson was the only senator who abstained from voting on the motion to...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson has vowed to work with Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian to ensure transparency in the budget process as deliberations on the P6.793-trillion draws near. This, after Gatchalian, who now chairs the Senate Committee on Finance, vowed to ensure transparency in the...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Thursday, July 31, 2025 scored the lawmakers who applauded President Marcos’ rebuke when he raised the anomalies on flood control projects during his State of the Nation Address (SONA). "I would like to think that the standing ovation during the President’s...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson became more emboldened to fight pork barrel and other anomalies in the budget, after President Marcos stressed in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday that there should be no repeat of the mangling of the 2025 budget. Lacson, an avowed enemy of the...
The Senate impeachment court will have to decide whether or not to heed the Supreme Court’s decision barring the Senate from taking up the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte. Atty. Regie Tongol, spokesperson of the impeachment court, confirmed this saying it is part of...
