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The House of Representatives adopted House Resolution (HR) No. 2165 expressing its “profound condolences” to the family of the late agriculture undersecretary and former Deputy Speaker Deogracias Victor Barbers Savellano. The resolution was authored by Speaker Martin Romualdez, Senior Deputy Speaker and Pampanga 3rd District Representative Dong Gonzales Jr., Majority Leader Mannix Dalipe, Senior Majority […]
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 […]
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 […]
The House of Representatives is eyeing a one-year suspension of PhilHealth members’ monthly premium contributions, pending an inquiry to determine if the agency’s financial stability can support such a measure, Speaker Martin Romualdez said. The announcement is part of the House leader’s wide-ranging remarks on the last day of the session of Congress before it […]
The 2025 General Appropriations Bill passed by Congress includes an allocation of P17 billion to cover the P10,500 monthly subsistence allowance for soldiers, House of Representatives Minority Leader Nonoy Libanan said, ahead of the 89th founding anniversary of the 165,000-strong Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on December 21. “Both the House and the Senate, largely through […]
House leaders expressed support for the proposed creation of a mega task force to run after market manipulators and bring down the prices of rice in the country. In a press briefing, Tingog Party-list Representative Jude Acidre, Zambales Representative Jefferson Khonghun and La Union Representative Paolo Ortega V agreed that the task force, which Speaker […]
At the third meeting of the ‘Murang Pagkain’ Super Committee, the Department of Agriculture (DA) proposed the restoration of the National Food Authority’s (NFA) power to buy and sell rice at lower prices. DA Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. emphasized the need for restoring the NFA’s power to directly intervene in the rice market by […]
The Bicameral Conference Committee on the 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) has successfully concluded its deliberations, approving a P6.352 trillion national budget that prioritizes the welfare of the Filipino people, including the increase of subsistence allowance for soldiers from P150 to P350 or a total of P10,500 a month. Speaker Martin Romualdez, lauding the efforts […]
The House of Representatives approved on second reading House Bill (HB) 11144 proposing that the first regular elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) be held in May 2026. Bill proponent and Lanao del Sur Representative Zia Alonto Adiong explained that the rescheduling of the BARMM elections is being pushed for the […]