The Senate on Tuesday commended the first Filipina mountaineer who has conquered the Seven Summits, the tallest peaks located in the seven continents.
With just 11 session days left before the 17th Congress adjourns sine die, House of Representatives Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is making a last ditch effort to push for the passage of the remaining priority bills that President Rodrigo Duterte mentioned in his 2018 State of the Nation Address.
The Senate will conduct an election for the committee chairmanships during the opening of the 18th Congress on July 22.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III will continue hold the reins of the upper chamber in 18th Congress which opens in July.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III said it was about time for the country to stop availing the services of Smartmatic International for the elections.
The wild goose chase involving Peter “Bikoy” Advincula should fuel efforts to impose harsher penalties on fake witnesses, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said Wednesday.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III hopes the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) has learned a lesson in dealing with potential clients after he exposed self proclaimed whistleblower Peter Joemel Advincula as a fraud.
Peter Joemel Advincula, the man claiming to be the whistleblower Bikoy, is standing by his allegations against President Rodrigo Duterte even if he has been unmasked as a fraud by Senate President Vicente Sotto III.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday said the Integrated Bar of the Philippines and Church leaders should be more discerning and believing hook, line and sinker stories of self-styled whistleblowers like Peter Joemel Advincula.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Monday formally endorsed 10 of his preferred senatorial candidates.
Senate President Vicente Sotto III, along with Senators Panfilo Lacson and Gringo Honasan II, is planning to call for a congressional inquiry into the implementation of the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps).
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Monday said the alleged plot to oust President Rodrigo Duterte would not fly.
President Rodrigo Duterte did not merely side with the Senate when he vetoed P95.3-billion worth of items in the 2019 national budget, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon said Tuesday (April 16).
President Rodrigo Duterte has vetoed a bill granting survivorship benefits to the children and parents of officials of constititutional offices.
Senator Panfilo Lacson believes the call of American lawmakers to release detained Senator Leila De Lima and drop all charges against journalist Maria Ressa are far from being gestures of international solidarity, as one of his colleagues have claimed.
The Senate’s “macho bloc” on Wednesday evening filed a Senate resolution rebuking members of the United States Congress behind two proposed resolutions that they said interfere with the Philippine judicial process.
House committee on appropriations chairman Rolando Andaya Jr. on Thursday hit back at the Senate leadership in the continuing saga of the 2019 budget, saying the senators also did what they were accusing the congressmen of.
Notwithstanding the word war between House and Senate leaders, President Rodrigo Duterte will sign the General Appropriations Act of 2019 soon, according to House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
House committee on appropriations chairman Rolando Andaya Jr. on Wednesday said he wrote a letter to Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea advising the latter that the Senate leadership’s qualms about the 2019 budget were “completely unwarranted.”
House committee on appropriations chairman Rolando Andaya Jr. on Tuesday slammed Senate President Vicente Sotto III for resorting to name-calling “in a bid to divert public attention from the drastic budget cuts imposed by the Senate on the President’s major infrastructure projects and social programs.”
House Majority Leader Fredenil Castro and Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte engaged in a verbal tussle over the latter’s accusation that House leaders realigned P92.3 billion worth of public works and health facilities funds to certain congressmen.
Bayan Muna chairman Neri Colmenares on Thursday said the 2019 national budget up for the President’s signature was still riddled with pork barrel funds.
House committee on appropriations chairman Rolando Andaya Jr. on Wednesday said the “strong reservations” expressed by Senate President Vicente Sotto III about the 2019 budget just showed “democracy at work” between the two Houses.
Malacanang on Wednesday said President Rodrigo Duterte will evaluate all aspects of the proposed the state budget for 2019 before signing it,
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