There are gaps in the proposed 2019 budget which the Senate can address in a transparent, legal way. No one is to be blamed for the oversight, as these unfunded mandates arose from laws passed after the 2019 national budget has been prepared in the executive branch. In addition

Republic of the Philippines Congress of the Philippines Metro Manila Seventeenth Congress Third Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-third day of July, two thousand eighteen. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11148] AN ACT SCALING UP THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL HEALTH

Dominic Sytin was a silent worker for Philippine progress. His niche was not in fancy cars that ferry people from point A to B, but in vehicles which move the economy forward. He made heavy equipment affordable to the small businessman, the countryside trader, to the promdi

Explanation of Vote, Bicameral Conference Report : “An Act Liberalizing the Importation, Exportation and Trading of Rice, Lifting for the Purpose the Quantitative Import Restriction on Rice, and for Other Purposes” Mr. President, my dear colleagues: The bill has its merits but it

Mr. President, fellow senators, colleagues from the House: A fellow Batangueño based in Dubai, one of the fans of this “Twitter rockstar,” has texted me to confirm the nominee because he is “an OFW, an Outstanding Facebook Warrior.” For this is true, Mr. President: While we may

The Bicameral Conference Committee approved today the consolidated version of the Universal Health Care (UHC) bill principally authored in the Senate by Senator Ralph Recto. Salient features of the UHC bill: 1. Automatically enroll all Filipinos under the National Health

As the government piles up debts without congressional review, a law requiring the country’s lead economic managers to make a biannual appearance before a joint committee of Congress to report on the country’s debt and finances “has become more urgent.” “Kung may Ulat sa Bayan

George Ty’s motto in life are in the letters of his name: T.Y., or Thank You, and he spent the better part of his life and wealth in showing his gratitude to his country for giving him the breaks and the blessings. If he is more known as a generous philanthropist than a genius

In a joint statement, Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio and former Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto del have said that our interests are “safe” and that “nothing is being given away” by the Philippines in its oil exploration agreement with China. This seal of a good agreement

If the Senate will start floor debates on the 2019 national budget next month, then the particulars of any or all of the 29 Philippine -China deals signed during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit may be asked of the Cabinet member who signed the deal, or whose agency is