Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:34:56 +0000
Senator Francis Pangilinan has filed a bill seeking to establish the Department of Disaster and Emergency Management
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:58:25 +0000
Government agencies should detail their anti-red tape performance when they face Senate hearings on the proposed 2020 national budget, Senator Sonny Angara said on Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 06:19:43 +0000
“Divorce? Over my dead body,” Senator Joel Villanueva said on Monday.
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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 05:55:07 +0000
A piece of advice for newbie senators: Don’t just stand up and take the floor if you don’t want to end up being grilled by veterans.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 02:57:20 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – An opposition senator urged Filipinos to resist attempts to revise the country’s history and remember how
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 22:44:31 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Senator Pia Cayetano said she wants her family to be judged on based on their work and accomplishments, after President Rodrigo Duterte teased the senator’s brother, Speaker Alan Peter, on when the family’s political dynasty would end.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:36:38 +0000
In just less than two weeks since the 18th Congress opened last July 22, the Senate has completed its reorganization of 40 committees with neophyte senators either getting two to three chairmanships.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:31:58 +0000
Senate President Vicente Sotto II said the Senate probe on PCSO will continue despite the lifting of the suspension of lotto operations.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 07:13:43 +0000
Senator Grace Poe on Wednesday said she will call for a Senate hearing on the Edsa provincial bus ban as the MMDA
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:32:36 +0000
Francis Tolentino’s baptism of fire as a senator came in the form of a verbal tussle with his colleagues when he tried to defend President Rodrigo Duterte’s supposedly unwritten agreement with China letting Chinese fishermen inside Philippine waters, which Tolentino said was a valid exercise of the President’s powers to enter into executive agreements.
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