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The House of Representatives, through the offices of Speaker Martin Romualdez and Tingog Partylist, in partnership with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., worked to facilitate the immediate release of P35 million in financial aid, with 17,500 food packs prepared and distributed as assistance for the seven congressional districts affected by the recent flooding and landslides in […]
The House of Representatives has been asked to investigate the power crisis brewing in Palawan and to seek relief for its citizens amid the skyrocketing prices of electricity in the province.House Resolution (HR) No. 1544, introduced by Speaker Martin Romualdez and Palawan Representatives Jose Alvarez and Edgardo Salvame, seeks to direct the House Committee on […]
A House inquiry ordered by Speaker Martin Romualdez has prompted popular coffee chain Starbucks to lift the cap it has imposed on the 20-percent discount senior citizens and persons with disability (PWDs) are legally entitled to. Angela Cole, who identified herself as operations director of Starbucks Coffee, told the House committee on ways and means […]
Newly designated Finance Secretary Ralph Recto is on top of the list of 171 presidential appointees awaiting their confirmation hearings once Congress resumes session on January 22. “The CA has already received the appointment papers of Secretary Recto, along with the nomination papers of two ambassadors, and the promotion papers of 168 senior military officers,” CA Assistant […]
“An aging population needs a hospital for the aged.” This was stressed by Manila 6th District Representative Benny Abante Jr. following the pronouncements of the Commission on Population on Development (CPD) that the country will have an aging population by the year 2030. An aging population refers to the increase in the percentage of those […]
The controversy over the Commission on Higher Education’s (CHED’s) discontinuance of the senior high school (SHS) program in state universities and colleges (SUCs) betrays the lack of a well-defined roadmap, House of Representatives Minority Leader and 4Ps party-list Representative Nonoy Libanan said. “It has become apparent that the CHED from the start never had a […]
Speaker Martin Romualdez directed the House Committee on Transportation to immediately look “into reports received by my office that corrupt practices may have tainted the conceptualization and planned implementation” of the government’s public utility vehicle (PUV) or jeepney modernization program.“The reports allege that existing transport officials are in cahoots with previous officials in negotiating for […]
Speaker Martin Romualdez facilitated the release of P630,000 worth of assistance package from him and the Marcos administration to the Filipino caregiver who was taken hostage and subsequently released by Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas.Jimmy Pacheco, 33 years old, was taken by Hamas in Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel during the group’s attack on […]
Borongan Airport in Eastern Samar will receive P200 million in capital outlay for the upgrade of its aviation infrastructure, House of Representatives Minority Leader and 4Ps party-list Representative Nonoy Libanan said. “The amount of P200 million has been earmarked in the 2024 General Appropriations Law to build up the infrastructure of Borongan Airport,” Libanan said. […]
In a bid to accelerate the development of protected bicycle lanes, Congress has raised to P1 billion the fresh funding for the Active Transport and Safe Pathways Program (ATSPP), Quezon City Representative Marvin Rillo, vice chairperson of the House committee on Metro Manila development, said. “In the 2024 General Appropriations Law, we bumped up to […]