It could be a new twist to the no work, no pay policy. With absenteeism a perennial problem in Congress, lawmakers who fail to meet the most basic requirement of showing up for work must be fined for their absences, some senatorial aspirants believe.
Lawmakers on Monday slammed former Trade Minister Roberto V. Ongpin for his purported attempt to rewrite Philippine history and paint the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, his family and his cronies in a better light.
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte has taken on the task of being the caretaker of Bohol’s second district after the passing of its representative Erico Aumentado on Christmas Day last year.
Former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo took a swipe at the administration in her New Year message on Tuesday, saying its anti-corruption message was not backed by deeds and was belied by the abuse of power to go after political enemies.
This Palace official suspects one reason for the lack of quorum in the House of Representatives during deliberations on the reproductive health (RH) bill: Reelectionist lawmakers fear provoking their parish priests.
Lawmakers on Tuesday urged the House committee on public order and safety for the investigation into an allegedly anomalous P1 billion license deal that the Philippine National Police entered with a private firm.
Lawmakers had mixed views Tuesday on the country’s $1-billion contribution to the International Monetary Fund.
A Visayas lawmaker believes that jueteng and other illegal numbers games are on the rise because traditional sources of booty for representatives and local government officials, specifically hefty kickbacks from road projects, are drying up under President Benigno Aquino III’s anti-corruption “Daang Matuwid” (Straight Path) program.
With the deadline for the filing of statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) drawing nearer, Civil Service Commission (CSC) Chair Secretary Francisco Duque on Friday warned lawmakers and government officials that a “wide discrepancy” between their declared net worth in 2011 and 2010 would raise a red flag that would prompt authorities to probe deeper into their actual wealth.
The House of Representatives has passed a bill seeking to protect and provide benefits to ‘whistleblowers’. House Bill 5715 which will also be known as the “Whistleblower Protection, Security and Benefit Act of 2011” was approved on its third and final reading after receiving 234 affirmative votes.
The remains of the late Representative Ignacio Arroyo are set to be flown in on Wednesday night via Emirates Airline.
CEBU-BASED trial lawyers, judges and lawmakers were mixed yesterday in their reception of the proposed changes in the conduct of court trials made by the Supreme Court.
