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“We will celebrate when the whole House follows suit, and the Senate passes its own counterpart measure. Until then, tuloy ang trabaho para makumbinsi ang ating mga kasama na dapat ipagbawal na ang POGO.” This was the reaction of anti-gambling advocate and Manila 6th District Representative Benny Abante following the House committee on Games and […]
“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 […]
With the Philippines joining the world in celebrating the 75th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR), House Committee on Human Rights Chair Benny Abante Jr. reiterated the need to continue promoting human rights, and said that the House would do its part to pass legislation intended to uphold the rights of […]
Anti-gambling advocate and Manila 6th District Representative Benny Abante Jr. reiterated the need to ban Philippine offshore gaming operations (POGOs) citing the testimony of law enforcement officials who, at the House Committee on Games and Amusement, cited a “pattern” of illegal activities in licensed POGOs that show they cannot be regulated. “Mismo ang mga opisyal […]
Remove, not regulate, POGOs. This was the position reiterated by House Committee on Human Rights Chair Benny Abante Jr. after law enforcement authorities again unearthed a prostitution den in a Philippine offshore gaming operator (POGO) establishment. “This was exactly my point in the privilege speech I delivered on the floor of the House last Tuesday: […]
With millions of voters who went to the polls for the long-delayed barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE), Manila 6th District Representative Benny Abante Jr. appealed to the elected leaders of the nation’s 42,001 barangays to “be the country’s champions against vice” as he warned against the “normalization” of vices such as gambling and tobacco […]
Manila 6th District Representative Benny Abante, Jr. urged the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) to step up what he referred to as its “campaign versus indecency” as he stressed the importance of ensuring that daytime television shows should be fit for family viewing. The House Committee on Human Rights Chairperson pointed out […]
The experience of incoming Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian as Valenzuela City mayor will be an asset for the new DSWD chief, who was appointed on Tuesday by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. House Committee on Human Rights Chair and Manila 6th District Rep. Benny Abante Jr. on Wednesday said […]
The House of Representatives approved on third and final reading House Bill 6492 to be known as the Magna Carta on Religious Freedom Act as it resumed session. The measure which received 256 affirmative votes, one negative vote and three abstentions, would protect the right of the people to freedom of religion as guaranteed under […]
The House of Representatives approved on second reading House Bill 6492 or the proposed “Magna Carta on Religious Freedom Act”. In his sponsorship speech, Manila 6th District Representative Benny Abante Jr. stressed the proposed bill is consistent with the duty of the State “to protect the right of every person to freedom of religion and liberty of conscience, […]