Sunday, December 21, 2025
Today's Print

Tag: senators

SWP: Hike budget for vulnerable sectors

Budget watchdog Social Watch Philippines (SWP) on Sunday urged senators to increase allocations for marginalized communities as the chamber continues deliberations on the proposed...

Senators expand relief missions for ‘Tino’ victims

Senators expanded relief missions and field assessments yesterday across typhoon-hit provinces as communities continued to grapple with the impact of Typhoon Tino. Senator Erwin Tulfo...

Politicians issue swift denials on alleged kickbacks

Incumbent and former senators on Friday denied allegations tying them to kickback schemes in flood control and infrastructure projects disclosed during a Senate Blue...

LIST: All senators bare SALNs in transparency push

All 24 members of the Senate in the 20th Congress have made their statements of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALN) public, following the...

15 more senators bare SALNs; Mark, Raffy top in assets

The Philippine Senate is practically an exclusive Multimillionaires’ Club, using the lawmaker’s Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALNs) as a yardstick. Nineteen of...

Go, Tulfo, Cayetano top poll on Senate performance

“If this latest poll is any indication, Filipinos are watching” It’s not often that three senators from markedly different political and personal backgrounds find themselves...

Palace: No comment yet on age requirement

Malacañang is withholding comment on a proposal in Congress to amend the Constitution and reduce the minimum age requirement for president and senators. The measure...

DOT gets branding budget of only P100m

Senators have expressed support for the Department of Tourism (DOT), warning that the Philippines stands to lose heavily if the agency is left with...

Leni cites pragmatism, focus of Kiko, Aquino

Former Vice President-now Naga City Mayor Leni Robredo attributed the victories of senators Paolo Aquino III and Francis Pangilinan in the recent elections to...

Dispute over oath-taking order delays Senate impeachment proceedings

A disagreement erupted Tuesday during a Senate plenary session over the sequence of events leading up to the oath-taking of senator-judges in the impeachment...

San Beda law dean, 2 ex-SC justices back start of impeachment trial

Several legal and academic luminaries expressed agreement yesterday that Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial should not be delayed any further, stating that the...

Censorship, opacity, and misplaced zeal

“What were our senators thinking?” BACK at work after the May 12 midterm elections, our outgoing batch of senators passed several pieces of legislation this...

Impeach or not impeach

“In any impeachment  trial, we have to consider the legal and the political aspect” WITH 24 senators sitting down as judges in the impeachment trial...

This is not an earthquake drill

Senators and employees pile out of the Senate building in PasayCity following a 4.6 intensity tremor that shook Lucena City in Quezon yesterday afternoon.
- Advertisement -spot_img
- Advertisement -spot_img