The Congressional Oversight Committee on Biofuels wants the Department of Energy (DOE) to scrap a department order directing all industry players to sell Euro 2 fuel, which has a higher sulfur content compared to the currently-used Euro 4 fuel.
If the Makati businessman seen hitting traffic enforcers in a viral video had done that in Valenzuela City, Senator Sherwin “Win” Gatchalian would have personally put him in the city’s dog pound.
The Senate would be suspending work at 11 a.m. today as at least half of its employees are affected by flooding due to rains brought by the southwest monsoon or Habagat.
Senator Joel Villanueva vowed to ensure that the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) would deserve every peso it would receive for its proposed budget in 2019, amid the fallout from the viral video starring PCOO Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson which featured a lewd song-and-dance number on federalism.
Federalism could end up becoming a “fiscal nightmare” for the country, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez told senators at a budget briefing at the Senate.
With the Senate not yet conducting probes into alleged anomalies in the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), opposition Senator Antonio Trillanes IV aims to grill the government agency during budget deliberations.
Senator Sherwin “Win” Gatchalian is planning to file a bill to amend a 78-year-old law which favors only Filipino and American contractors in biddings for government projects for the Duterte administration to finish its ambitious Build, Build, Build infrastructure program by 2022.
Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar on Monday apologized to Senator Sherwin “Win” Gatchalian anew for one of his agency’s press releases that got the lawmaker’s name wrong.
The Presidential Communications Operations Office may have caught the ire of Senator Sherwin “Win” Gatchalian for butchering his name, but the government agency is not alone in rechristening him as “Winston Gatchalian.”
