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The government is set to spend another P15.8 billion to fight child hunger with school and daycare feeding programs, as more poverty-stricken families are being driven to deprivation by soaring food prices, Makati City Representative Luis Campos Jr., vice chairperson of the House committee on appropriations, said. “We are counting on feeding programs to help […]
Congress has boosted to P254 million the sum meant to pay for the P100,000 one-time cash gift of Filipino centenarians, Makati City Representative Luis Campos Jr. said. “We in Congress are absolutely determined to sustain the annual funding required for the P100,000 cash gift of every Filipino who turns 100 years old,” Campos, House appropriations […]
A lawmaker urged the incoming administration of President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to ask Norway to develop the West Philippine Sea as a source of clean and renewable offshore wind energy. Makati City Representative Luis Campos Jr. said offshore wind farms in the West Philippine Sea would be consistent with the long-term plans to develop the […]
The House of Representatives approved on final reading the measure seeking to expand the coverage of compulsory insurance for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). With 180 affirmative votes, six negative votes, and no abstention, the chamber passed on third reading House Bill 10802, which seeks to amend the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act of 1995 […]