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House Speaker Martin Romualdez (PPAB)                   Alarmed by the prevailing high price of rice, Speaker Martin Romualdez has told profiteers and price manipulators to clean up their act, or else face the wrath of the House of Representatives. “Sa...

Rice prices from earlier this year (MANILA BULLETIN)                 The quinta-committee (quinta-comm) of the House of Representatives has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to investigate the role of middlemen in the alleged manipulation...

House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office)                 The House of Representatives, through the vaunted quinta-commiittee (quinta-comm), won't hold treat anyone as sacred cows in its bid to stop the practice of price manipulation of basic goods....

Rice prices from earlier this year. (MANILA BULLETIN)                  President Marcos' allies in the in the House of Representatives are still not giving up on the Chief Executive's dream of achieving P20 per kilo rice.  This, after Albay 2nd...

House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN)               The House of Representatives has formed the quinta-committee (quinta-comm), which is tasked to investigate the interdependent issues of smuggling and price manipulation of basic goods and...