House of Representatives (PPAB) A measure seeking to provide mandatory insurance coverage, retirement pay, and other employment benefits to all electrical line workers was unanimously passed by the House of Representatives on third and final reading Monday afternoon, May 8. Approved during...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Here's something good to look forward to for grandma and grandpa. The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that will grant a cash gift worth P1 million to Filipino centenarians who will reach the age of 101 years old. Given final House nod during...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (MANILA BULLETIN) House Speaker Martin Romualdez is employing a team approach in his bid to get as much work done as possible in the final month of the 19th Congress. Romualdez opened plenary session Monday afternoon, May 8 seemingly to rev up everybody's engines,...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) A subcommittee led by Senior Deputy Majority Leader and Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos is recommending the continued observance of hybrid plenary sessions in the House of Representatives. This was bared by House Minority...
The House plenary. (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The House of Representatives will be looking to pass on third and final reading not eight, but 14 more priority measures of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. once it resumes sessions on Monday, May 8. This, after House Speaker Martin...
From left to right: Onions, the House plenary, Negros Oriental 3rd district Rep. Arnolfo "Arnie" Teves Jr. (MANILA BULLETIN, Facebook) The House of Representatives will resume plenary sessions tomorrow, Monday, May 8, in the afterglow of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s five-day United...
PEACE-MAKER Cambodia makes history as it hosts for the first time the 2023 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, which is currently being held in capital Phnom Penh from May 5 to 17. It was supposed to host the games in 1963 but did not push through due to the political situation in the country at the time....
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Olongapo City Mayor Rolen Paulino Jr. has told congressmen that the city government cannot, and will not, pay its rather enormous P7.33-billion debt to the National Power Corporation (Napocor) and Power Sector Assets and Liabilities...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Nearly half of the country's healthcare workers are job order (JO) employees. Thus, bared Department of Health (DOH) Officer-in-Charge Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire Thursday, May 4 during the House Committee on Appropriations' oversight hearing on the agency's budget...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (left) and House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker's office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez was one step ahead of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. when it comes to the latter's suggestion that the deepening of ties between the Philippines and the...
Department of Health (DOH) Officer-in-Charge Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire (Malacañang photo) Department of Health (DOH) Officer-in-Charge Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire allayed concerns from House of Representatives members on Thursday, May 4 regarding the increase in local...
House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Monday, May 1 said the House of Representatives is fully committed to support President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr.'s initiative to push for the preservation of peace in the Indo-Pacific region. House Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez (3rd...
