Tag: Senate

DUTERTE TO SIGN BANGSAMORO BASIC LAW ON SONA DAY – CONGRESS

Post author By Hazel Chua
Post date July 20, 2018
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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 […]

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

Post author By Yna Sipelimo
Post date September 15, 2017
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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), […]

Tags Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel, Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III, CHR, ERC, Human Rights, NCIP, Senate, Senate President Koko Pimentel, Senator