Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 10:07:08 +0000
DAVAO del Norte 2nd District Rep. Antonio Floirendo Jr. said on Monday that he was among those vying for the Speakership, along with former Speaker and Davao del Norte 1st District Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez….READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2019 14:35:19 +0000
Is President Rodrigo Duterte junking his friend and ally, former House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, who also heads a faction of the President’s own Partido Demokratikong Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban)?
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:21:18 +0000
SAN JOSE DEL MONTE CITY, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday admitted that he has apologized to his friend, Davao Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez for his ouster as Speaker of the House of Representatives last year.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 21:22:32 +0000
Zubiri said the two chambers could meet on Jan. 14, when the legislative session resumes
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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: 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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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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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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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:24:48 +0000
Don’t look at us.Former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and his buddy, former House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas, dismissed insinuations that they had a hand in funneling billions of pesos in pork to their congressional districts.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 07:26:46 +0000
Former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and ex-Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas have pointed to the executive department for the infrastructure allocations their respective districts will receive under the proposed 2019 national budget.
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