The House of Representatives ' proposed KALINGA Act received a big boost on Tuesday afternoon, May 5 after the country’s economic managers threw their support behind the fuel price crisis response measure. The expressions of support were made during the first hearing of the House Ad Hoc...
House Majority Leader Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos is rallying his congressman-colleagues to swiftly pass the proposed Kalinga Act, which is seen to provide relief for poor Filipinos, the middle class, and small business owners amid elevated fuel costs. Marcos made the call ahead of...
Quezon City 3rd district Rep. Franz Pumaren is bent on subjecting the delays in the rollout of the national ID system to a full-blown congressional probe, even as he says the problem has turned into a big hindrance in the distribution of fuel aid. “I will file a resolution to investigate ‘yung...
Toxic lead continues to persist in Metro Manila’s air despite the global phaseout of leaded gasoline, with industrial activities and fossil fuel combustion now driving pollution, a new study found. Using lead isotope fingerprinting on aerosol data collected in 2018 and 2019, researchers from...
Camarines Sur 5th district Rep. Migz Villafuerte has echoed the call of the House Legislative Energy Action and Development (LEAD) Council to suspend for two months the collection of value-added tax (VAT) on petroleum products. Villafuerte, chairman of the House Committee on Information and...
The House Legislative Energy Action and Development (LEAD) Council has covered a lot of ground in terms of coming up with a wide range of legislative responses to this era of elevated fuel prices. To their credit, members of the House of Representatives actively participated in the three hearings...
With three exhaustive marathon hearings under its belt, the 13-panel Legislative Energy Action and Development (LEAD) Council is now ready to move on to the next phase of its function--that is, to craft a consolidated legislative response to the fuel price crisis. But don 't call it "Bayanihan...
Angkas Chief Executive Officer (CEO) George Royeca committed in front of House of Representatives members on Wednesday, April 15 that the popular motorcycle ride-hailing company would be slashing its commission from 20 percent to 18 percent. Royeca--speaking during the third hearing of the...
The Speaker Faustino "Bojie" Dy III-led House of Representatives has committeed to pass the long-sought Motorcycle (MC) Taxi Law in the current 20th Congress. This assurance was made during the hearing of the House Legislative Energy Action Development (LEAD) Council on Wednesday, April 16, where...
Batangas 1st district Rep. Leandro Legarda Leviste reiterated his aggressive push for Congress to move ahead with legislation that called for the reduction of value-added tax (VAT) from 12 percent to 10 percent. The outspoken Leviste did so during the latest hearing of the House Legislative...
Is President Marcos being fed the wrong information by his economic managers, resulting to the delay in the suspension of the excise tax on diesel and gasoline? House Legislative Energy Action Development (LEAD) Council presiding officer, Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Miro Quimbo; and Deputy...
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) retailers have vowed to immediately reduce the prices of their products--which Filipino households use as cooking has--once President Marcos issues the executive order (EO) suspending the excise tax on it. REGASCO President and former Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers...
