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The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a measure seeking the postponement of the May 2020 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections to Dec. 5, 2022. The lower chamber passed via voice vote House Bill No. 4933 after accepting an amendment to the rescheduled date. The initial proposal was to hold elections on […]
The Senate recently received the House-approved General Appropriations Bill for 2020, which provides for the proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for next year. Senator Sonny Angara, chair of the Senate committee on finance, confirmed this development in a statement sent to reporters. “Our finance subcommittees are completing the hearings on the proposed budgets of the last […]
Senator Win Gatchalian said he has filed a bill which seeks to transfer the “risk” of customer no-shows on ride-sharing and food courier company Grab Philippines, following an incident where a GrabFood delivery man was allegedly forced to sell 14 unclaimed orders of milk tea after the customer cancelled the order. In a Twitter post, […]
Senator Bong Go said President Rodrigo Duterte may ask the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to get to the bottom of the so-called “ninja cops” controversy after Senate has finished its hearing on it. “At the conclusion of this hearing, the President might ask the DILG to investigate and get to the […]
Senator Bong Go condemned U.S. senators for their “brazen interference” in the judicial process and internal affairs of the Philippines. This came on the heels of the news that a panel of the U.S. Senate has approved an amendment in an appropriations bill that will ban Philippine government officials from entering U.S. territory for their […]
Senator Win Gatchalian is urging the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to ensure a 100 percent distribution of the fuel subsidies for public jeepney drivers and operators this year in the wake of the recent oil price hike. During the recent Senate inquiry on the security plans of the Department of Energy following the drone strikes […]
For a lot of agencies and institutions of government, the requirement to keep certain documents for long periods of time has turned into a storage nightmare. Most of these offices are already cramped as it is and the clutter of documents is only taking up precious space. For Senator Sonny Angara, the digitization of documents […]
Senators have approved the postponement of the May 2020 barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections to December 5, 2022, effectively extending to another year the term of office of incumbent village and youth leaders. With all of the 21 senators present voting in the affirmative, Senate Bill No. 1043, was passed on third and final […]
Senator Cynthia Villar is confident that President Rodrigo Duterte will sign the re-filed Senate Bill 1233, or the Coconut Farmers and Industry Development Act, and Senate Bill 1976, or the Strengthened Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA). Duterte vetoed the bill in February for lack of “safeguards” to prevent coco levy funds from being used unlawfully. In […]
Senator Sonny Angara has filed a joint resolution extending the availability of the 2019 budget for maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) and capital outlays to Dec. 31, 2020. Angara filed Senate Joint Resolution No. 7, seeking to amend Section 65 of the general provisions of RA 11260 or the General Appropriations Act of Fiscal […]