House eyes transfer of headquarters to BGC

The House of Representatives on Monday created a panel that would study the possibility of relocating the chamber near the Senate’s new building in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig City for better communication and coordination of legislative work.

Tapped to head the committee were Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte Jr., Senior Deputy Speaker and Pampanga Rep. Aurelio Gonzales Jr. and Deputy Majority Leader and Quezon Rep. David Suarez.

Villafuerte was designated as chairperson of the ad hoc committee while Gonzales and Suarez were tapped as vice chairs along with Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers.

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The committee would cover “all matters directly and principally relating to the relocation of the House of Representatives complex including the conduct and study of the construction of a new House of Representatives building.”

—JEANETTE I. ANDRADE
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