House Speaker Martin Romualdez (MANILA BULLETIN) House Speaker Martin Romualdez is predicting that the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) would play a bigger role in the country’s development with the potential enactment of the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF). Romualdez, the prime mover of the MIF...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Coalitions among political factions are common in the Philippines, and the House of Representatives always has the largest collection of such groups under one roof. The biggest political party in the House right now is the Lakas-Christian...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), Deputy Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (Speaker’s office, Rep. Arroyo's office) Could this be the bookend of the leadership drama in the House of Representatives? If so, then the speakership of Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin Romualdez appears to be on firm...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Facebook) He may be the fourth highest-ranked official of the land, but House Speaker Martin Romualdez still gets "jealous" of other public servants sometimes. Romualdez made this admission on Monday, May 29 in front of nearly 100 visiting Armed Forces of the...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), salt (Speaker's office, Unsplash) The approval of the proposed Philippine Salt Industry Development Act will help address "a sin"--that is, the Philippine's dependence on imported salt despite it being surrounded by salt water. With a vote of 287-0-0...
(Unsplash) The House of Representatives gave its final approval on Monday afternoon, May 29 to the measure promoting the development of the Philippine bamboo industry, as embodied in House Bill (HB) No.7941. This, after 282 congressmen voted in favor of HB No.7941 during nominal voting in Monday's...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (Speaker’s office, Facebook) Ranking members of the House of Representatives hailed the third reading passage of the proposed Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) Hospital Act during plenary session Monday afternoon, May 29....
Passage of the controversial Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) bill before the July State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" R. Marcos Jr. is the ideal. But the "ideal" might not happen because there are still a lot of questions that senators wanted answered by Senator...
Vice President Sara Duterte and Sen. Raffy Tulfo topped the latest Tangere presidential survey for 2028 conducted from May 22 to 24. According to the pollster, three to four out of 10 Filipinos, or 39 percent prefer Duterte as their first presidential choice if the 2028 Presidential Elections...
From left to right: President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., Deputy Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and Vice President Sara Duterte (Speaker’s office, Rep. Arroyo's office, Facebook) Deputy Speaker and former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo says that she would never do anything to destroy...
Deputy Speaker and Pampanga 2nd district Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (Rep. Arroyo's office) Deputy Speaker and former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo slammed on Sunday, May 28 reports linking First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos to the alleged House coup that had been designed against Speaker Martin...
From left to right: Vice President Sara Duterte, President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., and House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez was upbeat over the grand launch of Pier 88 in Liloan City, Cebu on Saturday afternoon, May 27, an event he personally...
