The Senate is not dismissing Senator Joel Villanueva, in defiance of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales’ order last month.
Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III, who...
THE Ombudsman ordered Senator Joel Villanueva dismissed from service Monday for grave misconduct, serious dishonesty and conduct prejudicial to the interest of the service...
The Ombudsman orders the filing of 18 counts of graft, 11 counts of malversation through falsification of public documents and 7 counts of malversation of...
SOCIAL Watch Philippines on Sunday expressed alarm over the reports that the “pork barrel” still exists in the 2017 budget, and that legislators would...
SENATORS and congressmen now have “unlimited pork” after Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno removed the cap on project allocations"•such as the P70 million for congressmen...
Incoming Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez has said there will be no ‘unlimited’ congressional entitlements for each lawmaker under the soon to be proposed P3.3- billion...
LAWMAKERS in the House of Representatives will be allotted P80 million each in pork barrel for projects that must be identified through line-item budgeting...
Will there be ‘pork barrel’ under the Duterte administration?
Yes, there will be, if certain lawmakers have their way.
Neophyte lawmakers have submitted to the House...
THE Office of the Ombudsman on Friday dismissed six government officials for illegally appropriating money from the multi-billion-peso Priority Development Assistance Fund or pork...
