House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) Seventy-three members in the House of Representatives and counting. Speaker Martin Romualdez's party, the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD), have welcomed two new House members into its...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Ranking House members led by Speaker Martin Romualdez have welcomed the enactment of the "Trabaho Para sa Bayan Act", which they said would facilitate job-generation for Filipinos. Romualdez was among the government officials who...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) It will be a working recess in the House of Representatives for the next five weeks. This, after the House under Speaker Martin Romualdez approved during plenary session Wednesday, Sept. 27 a...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Not only was the mission accomplished; it was accomplished way ahead of schedule. House Speaker Martin Romualdez proudly announced on Wednesday night, Sept. 27 the 100 percent completion of...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The erstwhile 311-strong House of Representatives is now one lawmaker less, following the removal from the roll of An Waray Party-list's lone nominee in the 19th Congress. Removed...
Sen. Grace Poe said she believes that the next person to lead the Office for Transportation Security (OTS) should have an immense political will to overhaul the agency. She issued the statement on Wednesday, Sept. 27 after the courtesy resignation of OTS Administrator Undersecretary Ma. O Aplasca...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The proposed Anti Agri-Fishery Commodities and Tobacco Economic Sabotage Act--a priority measure of the agriculture-conscious Marcos administration--has been unanimously approved on third...
(MANILA BULLETIN) The late former Marikina City mayor and congressman, Bayani “BF” Fernando, has been honored by the House of Representatives through the adoption of a resolution. Adopted via simple voice vote (ayes vs. nayes) before dawn Tuesday, Sept...
(Unsplash) A measure seeking to institutionalize a mechanism that would refund customers in case of outages and disruptions with their Internet or telecommunications services has gained final approval in the House of Representatives. Gaining 278 affirmative...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) A measure that aims to increase government revenues from the mining industry has been passed on third and final reading during a marathon session in the House of Representatives. ...
The House plenary (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives has approved on second reading during a marathon plenary session the measure seeking to amend--and give more teeth to--the existing Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act, or...
Lotto ticket A measure that seeks to prevent children from being exposed to the allure of online betting--particularly with the Philippine Lotto--has been approved by the Committee on Games and Amusement in the House of Representatives. At the same time,...
