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Emergency powers on BoC sought

Lawmakers on Tuesday pushed for emergency powers for President Rodrigo Duterte to address the decades-old corruption at the Bureau of Customs, noting that the...

Poe to defend bill granting Duterte powers vs traffic mess

Senator Grace Poe will defend anew the bill granting emergency powers to President Rodrigo Duterte when Congress opens its second regular session on July...

Funding for traffic crisis OKd

THE head of the House of Representatives’ committee on appropriations said Friday his committee had approved the financing for House Bill 3 or the...

Road hazards, motorcycles and private village roads

It appears that Congress is really keen on investing President Rodrigo Duterte, through the Secretary of Transportation, with emergency powers to address the chronic...

Debate on transport emergency powers up

The House of Representatives will soon start the debate on the proposed emergency powers being sought by President Rodrigo Duterte from Congress to address...

Rody drops emergency power bid

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday he will no longer push Congress to grant him emergency powers to solve Metro Manila’s traffic woes, citing the...

Proposed powers could clear roadblocks–Poe

THE proposed emergency powers sought by the Executive to solve traffic could clear roadblocks in completing the P2.8-billion common station project that has been...

House panel okays special powers for traffic crisis

THE  bill seeking to grant special powers to the Duterte administration to address the worsening traffic problem has hurdled the committee level at the...

Traffic powers bill stalls

THE House of Representatives is still having a hard time passing the proposed emergency powers being sought by the Department of Transportation to address...

Tugade’s proposal ‘useless’ vs traffic

The proposed emergency powers for the Transportation Department headed by Secretary Arthur Tugade would be “useless” without transportation experts leading the agency, according to...

Transport head undeserving of extra powers–watchdog

Road users’ and consumer’s watchdog  on Sunday called on lawmakers to defer the granting of emergency powers to the Transport department  until such time...

Ex-MMDA head weighs in on traffic

REP. Bayani Fernando on Sunday urged the Metro Manila Development Authority to fix the worsening traffic problem in Metro Manila ahead of the grant...

House to rework traffic powers bill

A technical working group of the House committee on transportation will begin to rework next week the Department of Transportation’s proposed bill to grant...

Tugade’s megabuck bid feared to spawn graft

LAWMAKERS on Friday raised the alarm against the plan of Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade not to hold public biddings for some P8 trillion worth...
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