Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:09:54 +0000
The House Makabayan opposition bloc filed on Tuesday a bill seeking to exempt journalists from “acting as witnesses” in anti-drug operations.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:41:23 +0000
The allegation of House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. that the government had failed to allocate funds for the plebiscite on the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) was “misplaced and without basis.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 05:58:23 +0000
The House rules panel has gathered P81.1-million worth of deposit slips from winning contractors of government infrastructure projects, which found their way to the bank account of Aremar Construction Corp., a company owned by the Hamors in Sorsogon.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:51:20 +0000
President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, will testify publicly before a House committee next month.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 04:20:37 +0000
Field investigators from the Office the Ombudsman have already reached out to the House rules panel and would begin their own probe on the so-called “flood control scam.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 07:42:03 +0000
Congress will be committed to “scrutinize and approve” the 2019 national budget at the “soonest possible time,” Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 04:51:57 +0000
The House Makabayan bloc warned on Tuesday that they would file charges against security officers and their superiors behind the profiling of members of the progressive group Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) if they continue doing it.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 07:24:24 +0000
House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo lauded on Saturday the inflation downtrend, saying government agencies must act swiftly on implementing programs that would benefit Filipinos.
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Credit to Author: Peter Slattery| Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 22:00:03 +0000
The tiredest in a long line of tired attacks.
Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 03:37:03 +0000
The government will no longer push through with the cash-based budgeting system for the 2019 national budget, House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. said on Thursday.
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