The House leadership is confident that the Senate will agree to the former's P77-billion institutional amendments to the proposed P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023, saying this would augment funds for education, health, transportation and other critical social services. House Speaker Martin...
Realign the alleged P9.3-billion confidential and intelligence funds (CIF) in the proposed 2023 national budget into cash assistance or "ayuda" to poor Filipino families. ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (Screenshot from Zoom) ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro made this appeal to...
The bicameral conference committee on Friday, November started tackling the P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 of the Marcos administration, including the proposals for the realignment of confidential and intelligence funds (CIF), that are lodged under the Office of the Vice President (OVP)...
House leaders have guaranteed the enactment of the proposed P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 before the end of the current year, possibly even before Christmas. The House contingent to the budget bicam meeting on Nov. 25, 2022 (Speaker's office) “We have sufficient time, we will finally...
Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos achieved another milestone in his young political career on Friday, Nov. 25. House (left column) and Senate contingents to the budget bicam meeting (Speaker's office) This, after neophyte solon Marcos took part in the first day of the Bicameral...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Thursday said he expressed his reservation on the P5.268-trillion national budget for 2023 which the Senate unanimously approved on Wednesday night, November 23. Although he still voted for the approval of House Bill No. 4488, or the...
The bicameral conference committee has approved the proposal to create the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II), which would pave the way for another set of reforms that will address the crisis hounding the country’s education sector. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the...
The Senate and the House of Representatives have ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the bill that seeks to strengthen the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK). During their respective sessions on Wednesday, both chambers ratified the bicameral committee report on Senate Bill No. 2124 and...
The Senate has ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the measure that seeks to improve the quality of teacher education and training in the Philippines. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, chair of the Senate Committee on Basic Education, Arts and Culture hailed the ratification bicameral...
The Senate on Monday ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the proposed Expanded Solo Parents Welfare Act which is seen to benefit more solo parents especially at the time of COVID-19 pandemic. Sen. Risa Hontiveros, who chairs the Senate’s contingent at the bicameral conference,...
The Senate on Wednesday ratified the reconciled version of the bicameral conference committee report on the proposed P5.024-trillion national budet for 2022. Senator Sonny Angara, chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, assured that next year’s budget, which would be submitted to President...
The Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday signed the bicameral conference committee report on the proposed P5.024-trillion national budget for 2022. Senator Sonny Angara, chair of the Senate finance committee panel, said both houses of Congress agreed to increase the proposed budget of...
