Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:44:06 +0000
The controversial infrastructure budget in the 2019 budget was P75 billion, not P51.8 billion, Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said.
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Former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez’s district and that of his allies cornered the biggest billions from the “inserted” infrastructure project indicated in the proposed 2019 national budget, the House leadership revealed on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 05:57:01 +0000
Former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez’s district and that of his allies cornered the biggest billions from the “inserted” infrastructure project indicated in the proposed 2019 national budget, the House leadership revealed on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 05:08:48 +0000
Lawmakers from the Makabayan bloc claimed on Tuesday that President Rodrigo Duterte was merely peddling an “illusion” when he said that martial law extension in Mindanao will solve the insurgency problem.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:28:33 +0000
The House committee on basic education and culture began on Monday its deliberations on bills seeking the revival of the mandatory basic Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) for Grades 11 and 12 (senior high school) in public and private schools nationwide.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 07:38:08 +0000
Senator Leila De Lima on Friday said the alleged P2.4-billion “pork barrel” allotted to House Speaker Gloria Arroyo’s district shows that the former president has not changed after all.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 04:07:23 +0000
MANILA, Philippines —Senator Panfilo Lacson has asked the House of Representatives to delete or reduce the huge allocations for the districts of House Speaker Gloria Arroyo and House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya, Jr. if the chamber’s leadership believe this was a case of a “misplaced gesture of generosity.”
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Opposition lawmakers from the House Makabayan bloc branded the Duterte administration’s Tax Reform for Attracting Better and High-quality Opportunities (TRABAHO) bill as a “patently pro-rich sequel to the grossly anti-poor and regressive” Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law. Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate, ACT-Teachers Reps. Antonio Tinio and France Castro, Gabriela Reps. Emmi de Jesus and […]
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House committee on justice chair Rep. Doy Leachon has assured a speedy and fair action on the impeachment complaints filed by some opposition lawmakers against seven of the eight Supreme Court (SC) justices who kicked out former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.
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From “Build, Build, Build” to “Slash, Slash, Slash.”
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