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Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) director Aaron Aquino was conspicuously absent during last Tuesday’s motu propio probe by the House Committee on…
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From the horse’s mouth
The mid-term elections next year, after all, were the compelling reason for the House volte face on budget reforms that Majority Leader Rolando Andaya affirmed…
Reduced pork agitates House
The House protest against the Malacañang-proposed cash-based system for the 2019 budget has a lot to do with reduced funds for legislators’ individual pet…
House prioritizes DU30 legislative agenda
Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said the House of Representatives will prioritize President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s legislative agenda when it resumes sessions.
Pork illegal, solons told
Sen. Panfilo Lacson Members of the House of Representatives have resorted to “pork barrel” insertions in the past years which should be the basis for their…
House needs tokhang
The faceoff between the Executive and members of the new House leadership over the 2019 budget had legislators in the House of Representatives looking like a…
Time for the House to blink
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno says neither he nor the Palace is going to blink on the 2019 National Budget cash-based appropriations system they want…
Congress’ power to detain clipped
The Supreme Court (SC) has issued a ruling that it is not within the power of Congress to indefinitely detain a person held in contempt by the Senate or the…
Suspended budget hearings
On a rainy Saturday afternoon, House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Karlo Nograles sent out his surprise announcement via text message to his fellow…
Look: Sung Kim meets Arroyo
United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim paid a courtesy call on former President and now Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo at the House of…
Time for the House to blink
Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno says neither he nor the Palace is going to blink on the 2019 National Budget cash-based appropriations system they want…
Palace stands ground vs House
Malacañang said it is not giving in to the House of Representatives’ demand to revert the proposed cash-based to an obligation-based scheme for the 2019 budget…
Probes set on shabu fiasco
Amid the apparent buckpassing among agencies involved in President Duterte’s war on drugs over the P6.8 billion worth of smuggled shabu, the House of…
‘A house where everybody lies’
Trump WASHINGTON — A former White House staffer who has written a bombshell memoir of her time serving under President Donald Trump released a secret tape…
House, Senate tussle on budget
There are pros and cons for each system. I can work with any. I don’t mind a cash-based budget system with refinements. I expect a compromise.
Ex-pres’l adviser spills taped White House chats
Omarosa Manigault-Newman, then an aide to President Donald Trump, watches during a meeting with parents and teachers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House…
House suspends budget hearings
The House Appropriations Committee yesterday announced its suspension of the remaining budget hearings to express opposition to the cash-based budgeting…
P2.1B to upgrade airports
The government has allocated some P2.1 billion to modernize the infrastructures of six airports in the Visayas and Mindanao, according to the report by the…
House now opposes cash-based budget
House Appropriations members said yesterday the ongoing budget deliberations in the House of Representatives “have opened our eyes to the drawbacks of the…
Federalism: The path to hell
Filipinos are not only “not” ready for the country’s proposed shift to Federalism, which form of government President Duterte and his House of Representatives…