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The House Special Committee on Creative Industry and Performing Arts chaired by Pangasinan 4th District Representative Christopher De Venecia held its initial deliberation on House Resolution No. 451, authored by Deputy Speaker Camille Villar. The Resolution assesses the plight of Philippine Cinema in order to promote more film productions to generate employment, reviving its renaissance […]
The House Committee on Transportation chaired by Antipolo City Representative Romeo Acop, held a briefing on the power outage and technical glitch incident that affected flights in the country on January 1, 2023 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). In his opening statement, Acop said the preliminary hearing was held to determine the true […]
Quezon City Representative Marvin Rillo is batting for the passage of new legislation that would grant a fully paid week-long bereavement leave benefit to all employees in the event of an immediate family member’s death. As proposed by Rillo in House Bill No. 4340, private and public sector employees would be entitled to seven days […]
The call of Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benhur Abalos asking all top-ranked police officials to submit their courtesy resignations is being supported by Surigao del Norte 2nd District Representative Ace Barbers. “As chairman of the House Committee on Dangerous Drugs, I am in full support of DILG Secretary Abalos’ call […]
Surigao del Sur Representative Johnny Pimentel foresees the planned state-run Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) venturing into infrastructure development solutions, instead of merely holding passive assets such as fixed-income instruments, equities and bonds. “If we look at Indonesia, they are actually using their newly established sovereign wealth fund to attract private partners that can co-invest in […]
Congress has boosted to P254 million the sum meant to pay for the P100,000 one-time cash gift of Filipino centenarians, Makati City Representative Luis Campos Jr. said. “We in Congress are absolutely determined to sustain the annual funding required for the P100,000 cash gift of every Filipino who turns 100 years old,” Campos, House appropriations […]
Starting 2023, the lowest monthly salary in government will be at P13,000 for the regular position at Salary Grade (SG) 1 based on Republic Act 11466 or the Salary Standardization 5 law (SSL 5), the chairperson of the House committee on appropriations said. AKO BICOL Party-list Representative Zaldy Co said the 2023 wage hikes in […]
With the country’s economy picking up speed, Speaker Martin Romualdez said the House of Representatives will work double-time next year to ensure that whatever economic gains achieved would translate to better living conditions for Filipino families. “We, in the House of Representatives, welcome the good news from our Finance Secretary that the worst is over […]
Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte is in favor of legalizing the operations of small-scale miners. “The legalization of small-scale mining is definitely a lot better way of monitoring the operations of these miners, because it certainly is far more difficult for the DENR and MGB to track the activities of small-scale miners if they continue operating […]
The House Committee on Muslim Affairs chaired by Lanao del Norte 1st District Representative Mohamad Khalid recently concluded its investigation based on the two measures regarding the conduct of the 2022 Hajj to Mecca, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. House Resolution 7 authored by Lanao del Sur 2nd District Representative Yasser Alonto Balindong and Lanao del Sur […]