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Budget release process questioned

Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Sunday said it is “lamentable” that politics is a consideration in the non-release of the P160-billion "FLR" (For...

Solons: Bloomberg and FDA may have breached PH laws

Lawmakers said several laws may have been violated when the Philippines Food and Drug Administration solicited and received grant money from The Union, a...

Drilon renews bid to defund task force

Senate Minority Leader Franklin M. Drilon yesterday vowed to oppose “tooth and nail” the budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist...

Reckless endangerment

"It is Duterte himself who has encouraged the security sector to bear down hard on suspected communist supporters."     For more than two years, lawyers and...

Drilon hits, House defends release of NTF-ELCAC fund

Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday questioned the “speedy” release of P10.6 billion of the government anti-communist task force’s total P19-billion budget amid...

Wage subsidy for SMEs backed

The proposed P24-billion wage subsidy program will enable small and medium private enterprises to retain their employees and prevent further job losses, Senate Minority...

Trade-off deal on pork tariff in the works

Senators on Wednesday said back-channel talks were underway with the Palace over their call for President Rodrigo Duterte to recall an executive order that...

Parlade’s thinking

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Oust ‘Red hunters’–Sotto

Senate President Vicente Sotto III pushed back against moves by some senators to defund the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict...

Senate COW giving EO on pork tariff a chance

Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Thursday said he will convene the Senate Committee of the Whole (COW) to address the appeal of Malacañang...

Senate insists on ’state of calamity’ over pork crisis

With the Senate convening as a Committee of the Whole today (Monday) to discuss possible corruption in pork importation, Senator Francis Pangilinan on Sunday...

Special session for ayuda bills

Congress is willing to hold a special session if President Rodrigo Duterte calls for it to ensure the timely passage of bills on financial...

Bill makes red-tagging punishable by up to 10 years

Alarmed by the rising cases of red-tagging, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon proposed a measure that will make red-tagging punishable by up to 10...

‘P10-billion not enough for companies hit by COVID’

Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon yesterday questioned the inadequacy of the P10 billion allocation for assistance to companies in danger of insolvency due to...
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