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Midweek massacre: Cayetano loyalists lose leadership posts

Three senior House of Representatives leaders identified with former speaker Alan Peter Cayetano lost their posts and the perks that go with it, in...

House beats deadline, sends 2021 Budget Bill to Senate a day ahead

The House of Representatives was scheduled to transmit on Tuesday its approved version of the P4.506-trillion 2021 General Appropriations Bill to the Senate, one...

House panel heads under scrutiny, revamp seen

Speaker Lord Allan Velasco said Monday he will review committee chairmanships at the House of Representatives during the congressional recess to determine who is...

Bringing the House up to speed

"Stable leadership is what the body badly needs at this point."     Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco became Speaker of the House of Representatives last October...

‘Les enfants terribles’

"They are children of ambition, whose ups and downs must in time be tempered by the wisdom wrought by experience."   There were a lot of...

Cayetano loses another post

Booted out as Speaker, Taguig Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano was stripped of another position Friday, this time as the caretaker of the First District...

Roque spoke too soon

"He was dead wrong because the unexpected did happen."     Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque almost succeeded in painting his boss, President Duterte, into a corner on...

Behind the fight for Speakership

"It’s open season for treachery."     To entice the support of the House, Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano concocted the idea of “term-sharing” to assure himself of...

Ousted speaker’s party signs up for Velasco

Speaker Lord Allan Velasco on Thursday increased the number of his allies in the House of Representatives as the Nacionalista Party expressed support for...

The bottom line

"Our lawmakers know too well where their bread is buttered."   The ascension of Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco as new Speaker of the House of...

Shuffle unsettles House peace

The House of Representatives pushed through with a leadership shuffle on Wednesday as it installed allies of new Speaker Lord Allan Jay Velasco in...

What will Cayetano’s Strike 3 be?

"This could be the worst decision of his political career."     The word “strike” and the phrase “striking out” are part of the language of the...

A gentlemen’s agreement

"The doctrine of the separation of powers is a myth in this country."   It is true what they say that the kind of politics we...

All’s well that ends well: Rivals agree to work as one

President Rodrigo Duterte played peacemaker for the last time between Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano and Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco shortly after the...
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