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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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If you look at the Senate these days, what you see is not exactly an institution radiating gravitas. You see hyper-partisanship.
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What they have not done is give a straight answer to the mountain of evidence that has emerged.
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Despite all the smoke, mirrors, and performative outrage, there has been no real answer to that very basic question.
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This time, the story was told not so much by witnesses but by documents. With numbers and figures on paper.
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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…
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In the past two weeks alone, her side and her supporters have filed multiple petitions before the Supreme Court asking it to stop the House proceedings.
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