Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 09:49:46 +0000
Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has called for a “speedy and thorough” investigation on the killing of Ako Bicol partylist Rep. Rodel Batocabe.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 09:49:46 +0000
Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has called for a “speedy and thorough” investigation on the killing of Ako Bicol partylist Rep. Rodel Batocabe.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 21:36:23 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday night took the side of the Senate in pushing for the abolition of the Road Board
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 21:36:15 +0000
Forty-two members of the House of Representatives, almost all of them allies of President Rodrigo Duterte, and two senators had asked the Road Board for a total of P1.98 billion in funds raised through road user’s tax
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 21:34:07 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Thursday urged President Rodrigo Duterte to end the impasse between Malacañang and the House of Representatives over the abolition of the graft-ridden Road Board.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 23:21:24 +0000
The Senate and the House of Representatives appear headed for a showdown in deciding the fate of the graft-tainted Road Board amid allegations that the road user’s tax is P45 billion in pork. “As far as we are concerned, it’s abolished,” Senate President Vicente Sotto III said when asked about the Senate’s position on a […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 05:46:34 +0000
Lawmakers opposed martial law extension in Mindanao assailed the Speaker for restricting their time to interpellate and explain their votes.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:32:24 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson said he was “enjoying” the emergence of fresh allegations that more lawmakers had been given even bigger allocations for their districts
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:10:43 +0000
The House of Representatives has processed 1,361 bills and approved 492 since July, Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:29:42 +0000
The district of former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, not that of Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo or those of her allies in the House of Representatives, was allotted the biggest infrastructure funding in the proposed P3.8-trillion national budget for next year, House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. said on Tuesday.
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