Robin apologizes to Migz, Nancy, Senate officials over ‘IV drip’ issue
Sen. Robinhood “Robin” C. Padilla on Monday apologized to officials of the Senate over an incident involving his wife Mariel T. Padilla inside his Senate office last week.
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Sen. Robinhood “Robin” C. Padilla on Monday apologized to officials of the Senate over an incident involving his wife Mariel T. Padilla inside his Senate office last week.
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian urged drugstores and other retailers of pharmaceuticals to implement as soon as possible the exemption from value-added tax (VAT) of specific medicines for the benefit of consumers.
Saying the use of cyanide on Philippine coral reefs is a form of “environmental terrorism,” Senator Francis Tolentino on Monday pushed for a Senate investigation into the alleged practice—initially blamed on Chinese parties—of cyanide use on the waters of Bajo de Masinloc.
SEN. Mark A. Villar sponsored on the floor last Wednesday night the Anti-Financial Account Scamming Act or Afasa, drawing quick support from most senators.
CONTROVERSIES over certain budget “insertions” that have stoked the word war between two chambers of Congress could have been avoided if the rules governing the conduct of bicameral conference committees (BCCs) had been followed, the former chair of the Senate Accounts committee said.
SEN. Mark Villar on Wednesday sponsored on the floor the Anti-Financial Account Scamming Act or Afasa, drawing quick support from most senators.
The intention of Senate Resolution of Both Houses No. 6 is to keep basic education in the hands of Filipino ownership, Sen. Sonny Angara clarified on Tuesday as the sub-committee he chairs on Charter change resumed hearings.
THE Senate, voting 20-0, on Monday approved on third and final reading a bill mandating a P100 daily pay increase for minimum wage earners in the private sector, amid last-minute appeals by major business groups to hold it. They cited its impact on inflation and the financial damage to small and medium enterprises.
POTENTIAL ecomic benefits awaiting the energy sectors are being hampered by weak implementation that Senator Sherwin T. Gatchalian expected would promptly be delivered for the potential economic benefit from the Energy Virtual One-Stop Shop (Evoss) system, primarily lower energy prices, only to disappoint Gatchalian over the delayed implementation of the measure intended to attract investments into the renewable energy (RE) sector.
WHILE it may be good to help people withdraw their signatures from supposed “ayuda” (government assistance) forms that were actually for a people’s initiative drive for Charter change, the Commission on Elections should simply stop all actions related to any people’s initiative because the Supreme Court has “permanently enjoined” it in a 1997 case.
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday called for stronger parental involvement in education to further improve learner performance.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday announced it would start keeping track of people who withdrew their support for the People’s Initiative (PI) for “record purposes.”
A BILL providing for a P100 increase in daily minimum wage hurdled second reading at the Senate on Wednesday, boosting hopes that workers straining under the impact of inflation can get some relief.
Senator Robin Padilla is pushing passage of a law for higher compensation from the government for victims of unjust arrest and detention due to “mistaken identity.”
ALLAYING businessmen’s usual hesitation about granting wage increases to workers, Senator Chiz Escudero on Tuesday gave assurances that such pay hikes “will not bust the economy.”
SENATORS on Tuesday assailed the questionable inclusion of nearly P27 billion in funds in the 2024 budget for the “AKAP” program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development supposedly as payouts for poor families, but for which the DSWD had no clear guidelines yet, even as a promise of AKAP benefits were apparently used to lure thousands of people to sign on a People’s Initiative campaign for Charter change plot.
THREE key resource persons invited by a Senate subcommittee hearing on Resolution of Both Houses No. 6 regarding Charter change weighed in against amending the 1987 Constitution now.
A GROUP of Filipinos operating under the Patronato system in Italy—providing documentation assistance to would-be seasonal workers—have asked Sen. Raffy Tulfo not to lump all of them with the illegal recruiters now facing charges both in Milan and Manila for duping hundreds of P17 million in fees in exchange for nonexistent jobs.
THE Senate on Wednesday opened plenary deliberations on a bill granting a P100 hike in the daily minimum wage for private sector workers in the entire country, with several senators expressing strong support for the measure pushed by Senate President Miguel Zubiri himself, despite opposition by business groups and some economists.
THE key officers of an immigration consultancy firm accused of duping hundreds of Filipino jobseekers have fled the Philippines, senators probing illegal recruitment practices learned on Wednesday, amid the filing of a total of 92 complaints involving 219 victims and a total amount of 338,100 euros, or over P17 million, scammed.
Despite the cheer it has brought to generations of Filipinos across decades, the Filipino “perya” is an environment rife with exploitation, and lawmakers want to change this.
SENATE President Juan Miguel F. Zubiri assured the Filipino people on Monday that the Senate will work for “the best possible outcome for the people” as it deliberates on the proposals to amend certain economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution.
The chairman of the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments filed on Monday a resolution seeking to finally address the long-standing issue of whether the Senate and House of Representatives should vote separately or jointly in amending the 1987 Constitution.
A SENATE subcommittee mandated to tackle Resolution of Both Houses No. 6 (RB6) on constitutional amendments opens hearings today (Monday, Feb. 5), with its chairman expressing confidence that productive exchanges among lawmakers and resource persons on how to made the 1987 Charter more responsive to the Philippine economy’s needs will help avert a repeat of the heated clashes that marred Charter-change efforts via a divisive People’s Initiative.
THE Senate adopted a resolution citing the De La Salle University (DLSU) for its research-partnership pact with the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM II).
DESPITE the Commission on Elections’ position that the signature-gathering option can continue while the poll body suspends acceptance of the signature sheets, the People’s Initiative to amend the Constitution “is completely dead,” contends veteran election lawyer Romulo Macalintal.
Touting it as possible the next major economic hub, senators on Wednesday moved bills establishing the Bulacan Airport City Special Economic Zone and Freeport, in a legislative bid to revive a measure earlier vetoed in 2022 over fiscal risks and possible conflict among agencies over their mandates.
Amid efforts to firmly assert its rights over Philippine territory in the West Philippine Sea, Senator Robin Padilla stressed the Philippine officialdom must do the same for Sabah.
SENATORS on Tuesday heard testimonies from barangay and other local officials confirming their worst fear: that the controversial People’s Initiative (PI) signature drive to amend the Constitution is not grassroots-originated but politician-driven, and attended by apparent bribery.
THE Commission on Elections on Monday announced it has suspended indefinitely all of its activities related to the People’s Initiative (PI), including accepting signature sheets.
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