Senate adopts resolutions

The Senate formally opens the second regular session of Congress on Monday with only 20 out of 24 members present. Maila Ager/INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines –Several resolutions were adopted by the Senate when it opened the  second regular session of the  16th Congress on Monday.

The first measure was  Senate Resolution No. 768, informing the  House  of Representatives that  there was a quorum in the chamber and that “this body has entered upon the exercise of its function  for the second  regular session of the 16th Congress of the  Philippines.”

A separate Senate  Resolution No. 769  was  also approved, this time informing President Benigno Aquino III that  the chamber has a quorum and that it convened for the second regular session.

Two more  resolutions  were also adopted by the Senate: House Concurrent Resolution No. 6, providing for both the Senate and the House of Representatives  “to hold a joint session  “to hear the message of the President of the Republic of the Philippines,” and  Senate Concurrent Resolution No.5, creating a joint committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives  to notify the President that Congress has been convened  and is ready to hear the President’s state of the  nation address (Sona) in a joint session  of Congress.

The joint session  of Senate and House of Representatives will  be  convened at 4 p.m.  this Monday to hear the President’s Sona.