The House of Representatives is preparing to launch a probe in aid of legislation on the tragic drowning of Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) basketball team members Rene Clert Baterbonia and Divine Adili. According to Deputy Speaker La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V, the inquiry will be...
House "Young Guns" bloc members La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V and Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong are batting for a lowered threshold of senator-judges votes to determine conviction in Vice President Sara Duterte 's upcoming Senate impeachment trial. This, as both...
Ranking House of Representatives members have lambasted China for the reported deployment of a floating structure within the waters of Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) in Zambales less than a month before the 10th anniversary of the Philippines ' arbitral award. Criticizing Beijing 's...
House Deputy Speaker La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V clapped back at the twice-impeached Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday, June 10 for likening the Senate leadership squabble to the affairs of the Marcos administration. Ortega was reacting to the Vice President’s supposed...
Citing what he calls a "political trend", House Deputy Speaker La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V sees the new Senate majority under Acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian gaining even more size and strength in the coming days. Speaking in a DZBB interview on Sunday, June 7, Ortega said...
Who could 've thought that the bashing and online attacks being endured by members of the House prosecution panel in Vice President Sara Duterte 's upcoming impeachment trial would have a positive effect on them? According to House Deputy Speaker La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V,...
Deputy Speaker La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V corrected his colleague, SAGiP Party-list Rep. Paolo Marcoleta on Friday, May 29 regarding the latter 's claim that virtual voting had always been permitted in the House of Representatives. Ortega gave context to this emergency-based...
The "forthwith" debacle has once again reared its head, this time in the 2026 Senate impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. This, after House prosecution panel spokesperson Lanao del Sur 1st district Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong opined that the July 6 trial start date set by the Senate was...
Ranking members of the House of Representatives have come out to defend Executive Secretary Ralph Recto from what they described as political clatter coming from health reform advocate Dr. Tony Leachon. Criticizing Leachon were Deputy Speakers Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin and La Union 1st...
Don 't be fazed, keep trudging forward. This is House Deputy Speaker La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega 's advice to Cabinet officials who are facing repeated complaints and accusations from individuals who are seemingly just out to make a name for themselves. According to Ortega,...
House members past and present have hailed President Marcos ' decision to inject young blood into his team of economic managers by tapping public finance practitioner and University of the Philippines (UP) professor Kim Robert de Leon as Department of Budget and Management (DBM) secretary....
Ranking congressmen refused to give any mental advantage to Vice President Sara Duterte in their rather thorny tit-for-tat leading to the May 11 plenary vote on the lady official 's articles of impeachment. Supplying their respective retorts to Vice President Duterte were La Union 1st district...
