An administration lawmaker on Tuesday, August 3 called on government to relax restrictions on public transport and the installation of checkpoints within Metro Manila and its neighboring localities in Rizal, Bulacan, Cavite and Laguna during the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine...
Regular plenary sessions will be suspended and all congressional offices closed in the House of Representatives during the enforcement of the Enhanced Community Quarantine from August 6 to 21, the legislative chamber has announced. House of Representatives plenary2 In a memorandum released Monday,...
A total of 150 faculty clubs have submitted to the House of Representatives a resolution seeking to increase the salaries of the country’s public school teachers. (ACT Facebook page) The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) said its members and leader-representatives filed a resolution calling...
The House of Representatives on Monday, August 2, adopted a resolution conferring the Congressional Medal of Excellence on Hidilyn Diaz for ending a nearly century-long Olympic gold medal drought for the Philippines. Hidilyn Diaz It was House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco who led in filing House...
The House of Representatives on Monday, August 2, approved on final reading the bill increasing the social pension of indigent senior citizens. (MARK BALMORES/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) Voting 225-0, the Lower House approved on third and final reading House Bill No. 9459, which seeks to expand the...
The bill granting night shift differential pay to government employees, including those working in government owned and controlled corporations or GOCCs, has been approved on third and final reading by the House of Representatives on Monday, August 2. House of Representatives (Alvin Kasiban/MANILA...
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos says that house-to-house vaccination against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during the upcoming two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) period in Metro Manila simply isn't possible. MMDA Chairman Benhur Abalos...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) should extend the deadline for the registration of voters in consideration of those who would be affected by the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) that would be reimposed in the National Capital Region (NCR) this month, lawmakers at the House of...
The House Ways and Means Committee on Monday, August 2, approved the draft measure that aims to define the tax rates for propriety educational institutions (PEIs) and allow them to avail of preferential rates on taxable income. House of Representatives4 House ways and means chairperson and Albay...
After passing two important public health measures, the House oF Representatives has set congressional deliberation on the proposed measure providing for mandatory vaccination against the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) for each Filipino. Anti-COVID19 vaccines Authored by Cavite Rep. Elpidio...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Perhaps not too many people know that before we became a pioneering businessman in the Middle East and North Africa in the 1970s until the early 1980s and then, with God’s blessing, a five-time Speaker of the House of Representatives, we...
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco on Saturday, July 31, pressed senators to pass the Bayanihan 3 bill as the government imposes anew the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila due to the threat of the COVID-19 Delta variant. Speaker Lord Allan Velasco- coat and tie ‘’We appeal to our...