Plenary session in the House of Representatives adjourned early Tuesday, Nov. 16 amid rumors of an impending coup aimed at ousting Speaker Lord Allan Velasco.and Majority Leader and Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez. Majority Leader Martin Romualdez and Speaker Lord Allan Velasco Romualdez...
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco on Monday, Nov. 8 lauded government’s mass vaccination strategy triggering lower infection rate not only in Metro Manila but in the entire country. Addressing employees of the House of Representatives during the first flag raising ceremony in nearly eight months,...
The House Committee on Ways and Means is leaning towards the approval of a bill that would suspend for six months the excise taxes on diesel and kerosene and reduce similar imposition on gasoline. Gasoline pump picture In an initial discussion of six legislative measures containing various...
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco has called on government to downgrade from Alert Level 3 to Alert Level 2 the lockdown status of the National Capital Region as COVID-19 infections have started to wane. Crowd at flea market In a press statement, Velasco said he fully supports proposals to ease the COVID...
Enactment by year end of the proposed P5.024-trillion national budget will be on schedule after the House of Representatives made good is pledge to submit the 2022 spending plan on or before October 27. Speaker Velasco receives NEP Speaker Lord Allan Velasco disclosed that the Lower House sent to...
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco has vowed to transmit to the Senate the proposed P5.024-trillion General Appropriations Act on October 27 to ensure the timely enactment of the measure. Speaker Lord Allan Velasco3 This after a five man committee in the Lower House consolidated the proposed amendments to...
The decision of the House of Representatives to recall the third reading approval of a bill that seeks to institutionalize the 1989 agreement between the University of the Philippines and the Department of National Defense is in violation of the chamber's rules. UP-DND ACCORD Seven House members...
House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco hailed the lower chamber's passage on third and final reading of the P5.024-trillion proposed 2022 national budget on Thursday, September 30. House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco The House of Representatives made good on its self-imposed deadline for approving the 2022...
The House of Representatives will accept the Commission on Elections decision to extend the voter registration period for at least 16 days more but less than the 30 days that the legislative chamber has demanded. This developed after Speaker Lord Allan Velasco welcomed the Comelec decision to...
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco moved on Tuesday, Sept. 28 to include in the proposed 2022 national budget the purchase of three brand new C-130J cargo planes for the Philippine Air Force. Speaker Lord Allan Allan Velasco, together with other congressional leaders, meets with Philippine Air Force (PAF)...
The House of Representatives on Tuesday, Sept. 28 subpoenaed Krizle Grace Mago, an executive of the embattled Pharmally Pharmaceuticals Corporation, to appear before the chamber’s Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability on October 4. Rep. Michael Edgar Aglipay Signed by Speaker...
The House of Representatives approved on third and final reading the bill proposing to compel the Commission on Elections to extend for one month the registration of voters originally scheduled to end on Thursday, Sept. 30. House of Representatives plenary With all 193 congressmen present at the...
