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Jun 3, 2024 · A veteran lawmaker, Escudero invoked the policy and tradition of the Senate that vested solely to the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee such motu proprio powers to handle all matters relating to ...
Jun 3, 2024 · WITH 57 percent of Filipinos supporting changes to the Constitution’s economic provisions, members of the House of Representatives pleaded with their Senate counterparts on Sunday to consider ...
Jun 3, 2024 · On the basis of motu proprio, (Latin for “on his own impulse”) only the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee is authorized and empowered to conduct “inquiry in aid of legislation,” newly elected Senate president Francis “Chiz” Escudero declared. This means the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee is the sole body that can act on matters without any Senate Resolution referred to it in plenary ...
16 hours ago · MANILA – US Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Saturday hailed the Philippine efforts to protect and defend its territorial integrity and sovereignty, and uphold international law despite the challenges in the Indo-Pacific Region. This took place at the first plenary session….
Jun 3, 2024 · Ballyhooed Senate independence is pure fiction. Last of two parts. The incoming leader of the smaller house of Congress extravagantly and pompously declared that under his watch, the chamber would not be a rubber stamp of Malacañang, and yet, according to BBM, the senator told him about his plans to get the Senate presidency. If that is true ...
16 hours ago · Jun 02, 2024, 05:55. Senator Christopher “Bong” Go, chair of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography, has joined the efforts of local officials, fellow legislators, and concerned agencies in boosting support for economically disadvantaged college students. Through the efforts of the office of Rep. Ana York Bondoc in collaboration with ...
16 hours ago · MANILA, Philippines — A large number of men and women with live-in partners, widowed or separated, who have never been married and even some who are married, are among the 50 percent of Filipinos who support the legalization of divorce, according to a recent survey by the independent pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS).
