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// September 16, 2015
SEP
16
2015

SBN-2954: Institutionalizing CCT Indexation

An Act Institutionalizing a Conditional Cash Transfer Program, Providing for the Automatic Indexation of Cash Grants and For Other Purposes.  Explanatory Note The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), a form of conditional cash transfer (CCT), is now on its 7th year of
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SEP
16
2015

SBN-2953: Increasing the Allowable Personal Exemption of Individual Taxpayers

An Act Increasing the Allowable Personal Exemption of Individual Taxpayers, Amending for the Purpose Section 35 (A) of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, As Amended, And for Other Purposes
SEP
16
2015

Recto seeks Palace action on EDSA-like pace classroom construction

One way to solve the “EDSA-like” pace in building classrooms is to list down in the national budget the names of the schools where they will be built, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto proposed today. Recto made the proposal after the Department of Education (DepEd)
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SEP
16
2015

Good luck and Godspeed to Grace, Chiz, Allan, Sonny, BongBong

The more aspirants for the presidency, the better for our country. The bigger the field, the more choices for us. Better to have a surplus of aspirants than a shortage. It is within this context – of how pluralism in politics will do us good – that I welcome Sen. Grace’s
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