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As Senate leaders committed to give top priority to passing the proposed 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA) of P6.352 trillion with this week’s reopening of the 19th Congress, National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte has appealed to senators to consider including in next year’s national budget bill his proposed P20-billion outlay for the fast-track […]
National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte believes the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has a “good handle” now on checking campaign misinformation and disinformation on cyberspace in the runup to the 2025 elections, as a result of this electoral watchdog’s timely release of guidelines on the use by candidates and their supporters or of their rivals […]
National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte has welcomed a Department of Agriculture (DA) plan to “recalibrate” its Masagana Rice Industry Development Program (MRIDP) to further boost palay harvests, as he proposed to Secretary Francis Tiu Laurel to consider a game-changing subsidy-cum-contract-growing idea that will let government sell the staple at P20 per kilogram (kg) to […]
Following the declaration of a state of calamity and imposition of a price freeze on basic goods in Metro Manila in the aftermath of the habagat (southwest monsoon) heavy rains enhanced by super typhoon Carina, National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte is pushing the congressional approval of a measure making it easier and quicker for the […]
National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte has welcomed the scheduled local rollout in two months’ time of the Vietnamese vaccine found effective against the African swine fever (ASF), as he reiterated his proposal for the Department of Agriculture (DA) to give the anti-ASF shots for free to the swine population of small or backyard […]
The selection of the Philippines as host of the Loss and Damage Fund (LDF) Board of the member-countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will not only broaden our access to international funds for fighting planet warming; it will also prop up the role of President Marcos as champion or spokesman for […]
National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte has said that resigned senator and incoming Secretary Juan Edgardo Angara of the Department of Education (DepEd) needs to do a “serious rethinking” of state and private-sector financial support for the DepEd to address, among others, the acute fund lack responsible for the perennial shortages in classrooms, teachers […]
National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte has welcomed a new Malacañan Palace order that officially slashed import tariffs on rice, in a move, which, he said will set in motion President Marcos’ goal to pull down eventually the retail cost of this staple to below P30 per kilo. “The recent issuance by the President of […]
National Unity Party (NUP) president LRay Villafuerte is seeking swift congressional action on a slew of measures meant to ensure a better work environment for a great number of Filipinos and provide them with more benefits and privileges, in step with President Marcos’ goal of improving the lives of all our people under his Bagong Pilipinas vision. On […]
The mounting public outcry over incidents of animal cruelty, the latest of which was the brutal killing of a three-year-old Golden Retriever named Killua in CamSur, should be a “wake-up call” for the 19th Congress to toughen up laws promoting and protecting the welfare of all animals, LRay Villafuerte, a congressman representing the province and president of […]