As grief enveloped the nation over the death of 50 soldiers during a C-130 crash in Sulu, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco vowed to strongly push for an upgrade and modernization of the country’s air assets, saying that what happened on Sunday, July 4 must not occur again in the future. Velasco led...
The House of Representatives is giving a blast for the last as it shifted preparations for President Rodrigo Duterte’s sixth and final State of the Nation Address to high gear. Speaker Lord Allan Velasco said the Lower Chamber had laid out plans to highlight the legislative accomplishments of the...
Rumors of a coup in the House of Representatives should be put to rest as President Duterte already told Leyte Rep. and House Majority Leader Martin Romualdez to leave the Speakership alone and set his sights on the vice presidential post instead. President Rodrigo Duterte and House Majority Leader...
As heroes paid for our freedom with their hard work and sacrifices, Filipinos must work hard to create a better nation for generations that follow, House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco on Saturday said . Speaker Lord Allan Velasco3 ‘’As we commemorate the 123rd anniversary of the Proclamation of...
The House of Representatives on Monday, June 6 honored the late former Occidental Mindoro Rep. Amelita Calimbas-Villarosa, the first woman deputy speaker of the chamber, in necrological services held at the Batasan Pambansa plenary hall. Villarosa, former executive vice president of Lakas-Christian...
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco’s name surfaced as the next president of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino -Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) as a faction emerged and threatened to wrest the leadership of the Malacanang-backed political party from its current head, Senator Manny Pacquiao. Velasco’s Lower...
Speaker Lord Allan Velasco lauded the decision of the Professional Regulations Commission to push through with the 2021 Nursing Licensure Examination in July, saying that the move will help address the shortage of health care workers faced by medical facilities and health centers as a result of the...
A weekly webinar series where experts will share their opinions on the proposed amendments to the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution will kick off on Friday, May 14. The event, which is being organized by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), also intends to stimulate...
The Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) has expressed support for an initiative to hold hearings on Constitutional Amendments with the objective of amending the restrictive economic provisions of the Constitution. But FEF also equally stressed the need to introduce the phrase “unless otherwise...
