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SENATE EYEING USE OF MALAMPAYA FUND TO CUT ELECTRICITY BILL – GATCHALIAN

The Senate Committee on Energy is studying the possibility of using the ₱204 billion Malampaya Fund to reduce the universal charge (UC) paid by end-consumers on their monthly electricity bills, which could result in household savings as high as ₱2,033.76 annually. The committee took up Senate Bill No. 924, authored by Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph […]

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Senate to Work on ‘Reasonable Middle Ground’ with House on P1k Budgets for CHR, ERC, NCIP – PIMENTEL

Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III said that the members of the Senate would exhaust all efforts to find a “reasonable middle ground” with their counterparts from the House of Representatives in order to restore funding for three government agencies that were given a budget of 1,000 pesos each: the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), […]