The RisaNa! movement’s position is fairly straightforward. And as options go, Risa Hontiveros is hardly unreasonable.
Barry Gutierrez · · 3 min read
Article VI, Section 16(1) requires a majority of all the members. In a 24-member Senate, that means 13. And that is why the talk of a 13th senator joining the…
Barry Gutierrez · · 3 min read
Legislative bodies base a quorum on those members whom they can actually compel to show up. This is the premise on which the new majority acted.
Barry Gutierrez · · 3 min read
The past three weeks in the Senate have offered a depressing masterclass on both. We have seen clowning, grandstanding, and the sort of chest-thumping nonsense…
Barry Gutierrez · · 3 min read
This is Alan Peter Cayetano we are talking about, a man who has built much of his public life on the capacity to say outrageous things with a straight face,…
Barry Gutierrez · · 3 min read
If you look at the Senate these days, what you see is not exactly an institution radiating gravitas. You see hyper-partisanship.
Barry Gutierrez · · 3 min read
What they have not done is give a straight answer to the mountain of evidence that has emerged.
Barry Gutierrez · · 3 min read
Despite all the smoke, mirrors, and performative outrage, there has been no real answer to that very basic question.
Barry Gutierrez · · 3 min read
This time, the story was told not so much by witnesses but by documents. With numbers and figures on paper.
Barry Gutierrez · · 3 min read
Madriaga’s testimony did not stop there. He also spoke about the alleged sources of Sara Duterte’s 2022 campaign funds, and that part of the narrative was just…
Barry Gutierrez · · 3 min read
