Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 11:08:54 +0000
More senators have denounced the killing of Ako Bicol Rep. Rodel Batocabe, who was assassinated in Daraga, Albay on Saturday afternoon.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 05:22:01 +0000
“Road Board is dead,” even without a law abolishing it, Senate Minority Franklin Drilon said on Saturday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 04:11:18 +0000
The Senate will now wait for Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s signature before transmitting to the President the bill that seeks to abolish the Road Board.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 01:16:56 +0000
Former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile is not yet done criticizing the present composition of the Senate.
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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: The Manila Times| Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 09:32:00 +0000
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte is inclined to sign a bill abolishing the Road Board even without the counterpart measure from the House of Representatives, which Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has yet to…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 05:57:42 +0000
Former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile criticized the current Senate practice of ‘coffee table’ legislation where there are no debates.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 05:27:40 +0000
There is no stopping President Rodrigo Duterte from signing the bill abolishing the Road Board, the Palace said.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 04:29:51 +0000
MANILA, Philippines —There’s only one official that can bar Budget Secretary Ben Diokno from attending the House of Representatives’ probe on alleged “pork insertions” in the 2019 national budget — that’s the President.
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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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