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Some 137,000 college students will receive P15,000 in cash assistance this year under the national government’s Tulong Dunong Program (TDP), Quezon City Representative Marvin Rillo, vice chairperson of the House committee on higher and technical education, announced. “In the 2025 General Appropriations Law, Congress earmarked the sum of P2.06 billion for the TDP, which provides grantees with […]
“National Baptist Day is more than a celebration; it is a recognition of the indelible impact that Baptist communities have in uplifting lives and spreading the teachings of faith, love, and hope across our nation.”This is according to the House Committee on Human Rights Chair and Manila 6th District Representative Benny Abante, who urged Baptist […]
The House Committee on Ways and Means chaired by Albay Representative Joey Salceda met recently to fine-tune the unnumbered substitute bill to House Bill (HB) 10329 seeking to curb the illicit tobacco trade through the imposition of heavy and differentiated penalties according to the degree of involvement in said activity. Salceda, in his explanatory note […]
BICOL SARO Party-list Representative Brian Raymund Yamsuan encouraged secretariat personnel of the House of Representatives (HRep) to renew their commitment to public service during its first flag-raising ceremony in 2025. “Let good governance be our resolution. Anuman ang inyong posisyon, ipakita ninyo that the House of Representatives is truly for the Filipino people,” he legislator […]
Bohol 3rd District Representative Kristine Alexie Tutor said direct cash transfer “ayuda” programs are “effective at keeping poor and low-income households from sinking deeper into poverty.” Tutor noted that the ayuda programs started with the 4Ps and the World Bank saw it was effective in poverty alleviation. “But the COVID pandemic was so intense that other programs, […]
House of Representatives Minority Leader Nonoy Libanan is urging the government to establish a new International Prisoner Transfer Program that would allow Filipinos convicted of offenses abroad to serve their prison terms in the Philippines. Libanan called on the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) to […]
The Philippines produced a total of 37,098 new registered nurses in 2024. However, there is no assurance that all of them will practice their profession, or that they will do so within the country, according to Quezon City Representative Marvin Rillo. “Largely due to the pressure to survive, some of them will likely try to […]
Speaker Martin Romualdez said the 2025 national budget embodies the shared commitment of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Congress to make life better for the Filipino people. The leader of the 307-strong House of Representatives lauded the President for signing the budget recently, calling it a “significant milestone.” Romualdez said the outlay for next year […]
The “Murang Pagkain” super committee conducted its fifth meeting to discuss the impact of irrigation in the rice supply chain. Super committee lead chairman and Albay Representative Joey Salceda said, “It was established that lowering of tariffs under EO (Executive Order) 62 did not translate – translated to only 50 centavos – to any significant […]
All six congressmen of the City of Manila jointly filed House Resolution 2126 asking the Commission on Higher Education and the Unified Financial Assistance System for Tertiary Education to come to aid of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. The Manila representatives are asking CHED and UNIFAST to reimburse PLM using its new rates of […]