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Trump orders payment for airport security

WASHINGTON, DC – US President Donald Trump said Thursday he would sign an order instructing the Department of Homeland Security to pay airport security...

House, Senate to reconcile versions of fuel excise bill

The House of Representatives and the Senate will reconcile today its versions of a measure giving President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. the power to suspend...

Marcos: Certifying bill as urgent helps move it through plenary stage

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Tuesday he will certify as urgent the proposed emergency powers measure once Congress completes its committee report, explaining that...

House leaders file bill letting PBBM suspend fuel excise taxes

House Speaker Faustino ‘Bojie’ Dy III and Majority Leader Ferdinand Alexander ‘Sandro’ Marcos on Monday filed a bill authorizing President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to...

Lawmakers to study emergency powers

The House of Representatives committee on energy will study the proposal to grant the President the power to implement temporary measures during an electric...

Trudeau to defend to inquiry use of emergency powers against Canada trucker protests

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will testify at a public inquiry on Friday in defense of Canada's use of wartime measures to dislodge protestors whose...

Trudeau: Canada blockades lifted, but ’emergency is not over’

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday defended his use of emergency powers to end weeks-long trucker-led protests and argued that lingering threats require...

House acts on ‘special powers’ bill

The House of Representatives has committed to pass today a bill granting President Rodrigo Duterte the authority to expedite the issuance of government permits...

Emergency powers cease

"Congress will adjourn on June 5."     The 25-year franchise of Lopez-owned radio-television network renewal was finally deliberated by the House of Representatives last Tuesday. I...

Rody’s extra power extension, virus bills okay up

Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said he will file a bill Tuesday authorizing Congress to extend President Duterte’s emergency powers under the...

UN warns of cop brutality, human rights curtailing under pandemic

Geneva, Switzerland—The UN rights chief warned Monday, April 27, that countries flouting the rule of law in the name of fighting the novel coronavirus...

‘Duterte’s traffic powers no priority’

The House of Representatives will not prioritize the passage of a measure that proposes to grant President Rodrigo Duterte emergency powers to address the...

Emergency powers for Rody pushed

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Emergency powers

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