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Senator Dick Gordon has called on concerned government agencies to ensure timely and proper collection of duties and taxes to bolster tax collection and eliminate the need to impose the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law to raise revenue. Gordon, chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, pointed out that if agencies such […]
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” Nograles on Sunday urged the Senate to act on approving its version of the proposed 1.16 billion-peso Supplemental Budget meant to provide medical aid for victims of the controversial anti-dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia. This as the third regular session of the 17th Congress is set to begin today […]
The congressional bicameral conference committee on Wednesday night approved the final version of the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), which was renamed as the Organic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. The bicameral panel, under the leadership of House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas and Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri, was able […]
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), […]