Former Ako Bicol Party-list Representative Zaldy Co and former House Speaker and Leyte 1st District Representative Martin Romualdez will be invited in the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s next public hearing on the flood control project controversy. Senate President Pro Tempore and Blue Ribbon...
Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Tuesday, September 30 said the revelations on the huge budget insertions by members of the Senate and House of Representatives in the 2025 national budget is a chance for both houses of Congress to ensure that next year’s budget is free...
Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III on Monday, September 29 clarified that not all budget insertions can be considered illegal or bad as individual amendments or insertions made by lawmakers during Senate deliberations are part of the regular budget process. Sotto pointed this out afer...
Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson on Friday, September 26, said that a full record check and background investigation (RCBI) on "surprise witness" Orly Regala Guteza is needed due to the gravity of his testimony during Thursday 's Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing....
Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo "Ping" Lacson vowed on Wednesday, Sept. 24, to closely scrutinize the realignments made in the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) 's proposed budget for 2026, particularly those introduced in the House of Representatives for "ayuda" programs. ...
Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo "Ping" Lacson said on Wednesday, Sept. 24, that Former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) chief Manuel Bonoan is either in cahoots when it comes to the agency 's anomalous activities or he 's just incompetent. Lacson said this in response...
Whether you tuned in to the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing or the House infrastructure inquiry on anomalous flood control projects, you’ve probably heard resource persons drop strange words that didn’t quite mean what they seemed. Then there 's Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo...
Senator Rodante Marcoleta on Tuesday, September 23 turned aggressive in insisting that the Senate and the government recognize the feasibility of turning contractors Pacifico “Curlee” and Cezarah “Sarah” Discaya into state witnesses and to put them under the Witness Protection Program...
Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson expressed on Monday, September 22 his belief that Congress is the “original sin” behind all the substandard and ghost flood control projects that have turned Filipinos’ lives into a living hell. “Congress is the original sin here. If...
Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III will be meeting with the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) to discuss the government 's budget process and how insertions are made possible. "I was invited by ICI to shed light on how the usual budget process of government or of the...
All documents, including the computer, and other items that were retrieved by former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) assistant district engineer Brice Hernandez will undergo the proper procedure to preserve the chain of custody, according to Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo...
Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo "Ping" Lacson said on Saturday, Sept. 20, that testimony from former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Bulacan First District Engineering Office head Henry Alcantar could open the proverbial "can of worms" in the flood control investigation. And...
