They started their 12-year sojourn in the Senate on the heels of the second Edsa People Power Revolution in 2001 that ousted President Joseph Estrada, who was subsequently convicted for plunder.
Broken tradition, broken vows. The controversy that resulted in the Senate’s loss of two of its top leaders appears to have also claimed a long-standing tradition of the majority and the minority smoking the peace pipe as a session of Congress bows out with its sine die adjournment.
Children between 12 and 15 years old who commit serious crimes such as murder, robbery, abduction or rape, shall now be confined in a government facility once President Benigno Aquino III signs the amended Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act passed by Congress on Wednesday.
Administration allies on Wednesday took turns denouncing election violence, particularly the attack on Gingoog Mayor Ruth de Lara Guingona two weeks ago by communist New People’s Army guerrillas.
sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan on Thursday questioned the Supreme Court decision that Congress could have only one representative to the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC), saying the court only wants to maintain its “firm hold” on the multisectoral council.
Senators Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, whose terms will end on June 30, will soon be part of the official family of President Aquino.
Senators praised President Benigno Aquino III for signing the Human Rights Victim Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013 on the 27th anniversary of the Edsa People Power Revolution.
A senator and a representative have asked the Department of Justice to explain why the three children of former Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) chairman Efraim Genuino were dropped from the plunder, corruption and malversation charges the DOJ filed in the Office of the Ombudsman.
Senator Francis Pangilinan on Monday said magistrates associated with impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona were blocking the reforms being implemented by Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno in the judiciary.
The resolution of the Maguindanao Massacre case will be a measure of how far the Philippines’ justice system has progressed, Senator Francis Pangilinan said.
The mayor of a Pampanga town turned over to the Senate Wednesday morning five officers of rice cooperatives who were cited in contempt by a committee for allegedly refusing to testify in an investigation on rice smuggling in Subic.
Twenty-six years after he silenced political opponents as Ferdinand Marcos’ martial law administrator, Juan Ponce Enrile either still evokes fear or those hoping he would be ousted as Senate President are too disorganized to get him out of his post.
President Benigno Aquino III’s cousin, Bam Aquino, was welcomed as a “fresh” candidate in the official senate ticket of the Liberal Party (LP), Senator Francis Pangilinan said Monday.
