Tag: Congress

House reschedules budget hearing after no-show of COMELEC’s Bautista

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – The House Appropriations Committee postponed the Commission on Elections budget hearing on Wednesday, August 23, after COMELEC Chairman Andres Bautista did not attend the hearing. According to COMELEC Executive Director Jose Tolentino Jr., Bautista attended an important meeting with his children’s guidance counselor. “The chairman will be meeting with the guidance counselor of his children… That’s why he couldn’t attend this meeting right now,” Tolentino told lawmakers. Tolentino also […]

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Senator Lacson on assurances there is no pork in the 2018 nat’l budget: “Let’s be honest”

(Eagle News) — Let’s be honest. This was the message of Senator Ping Lacson to lawmakers amid assurances there was no pork in the 2018 national budget. “That’s what the Department of Budget and Management and the House appropriations committee always say before, during and after our budget deliberations..(but) how do you explain (certain things)?” he asked. He said there were, for instance, “big lump sums” in several agencies such as the Department of Public […]

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Duterte to wait for Congress’ report on inquiries before deciding on Customs chief Faeldon’s fate

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday said he would wait for the results of Congress’ investigation into the Bureau of Customs’ failure to stop a P6.4-billion drug shipment into the country before deciding on Customs chief Nicanor Faeldon’s fate. “Let the investigation (continue)..I want the (final) report. I will review it and I will be fair,” he said in a press conference after his speech during the 113th founding anniversary celebration of the […]

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President Duterte: “It is not the peace of the dead, but the peace of the living that we seek”

  (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte stressed that he is after the “peace of the living,” and not the peace of the dead, during his second State of the Nation Address before Congress on Monday, July 24, 2017 as he reiterated his support for government forces whom he described as the country’s “silent heroes.” “Today, a multitude of problems confront us,” he said as he observed that one problem after another crops up for […]

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Palace: Duterte’s 2nd SONA with “comfortable life for all” theme, could last for 1 hour and 30 minutes

(Eagle News) — “A comfortable life for all.” This is theme of the President Rodrigo Duterte’s second State of the Nation Address (SONA) which is written in English. “On the whole it will be frank, challenging, realistic but hopeful,” said Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella. “The President’s State of the Nation Address will be rendered in broad strokes reviewing past achievements, stating the present situation and announcing future prospects,” he explained. Duterte’s second SONA if read […]

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More camera angles, but less low angle shots to be seen in 2nd Duterte SONA

  (Eagle News) — More camera angles, but less of the controversial low-angle shots will be seen in President Rodrigo Duterte’s second State of the Nation Address (SONA) which will once again be directed by award-winning director Brillante Mendoza. Mendoza will use 18 cameras placed in strategic locations inside the session hall of Batasang Pambansa. He said there will be more dramatic lighting, and more angles but the director had already been asked to lessen […]

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Security and addressing root cause of conflict, among issues seen by military that Duterte’s SONA will address

  Filipino military personnel expect that President Rodrigo Duterte would tighten up security as conflicts between the government and insurgents are mounting. Two military officials made the remarks in an exclusive interviews with China Central Television (CCTV) before Duterte will deliver his second state of the nation address (SONA) since he took office last June. Major Ezra Balagtey, spokesman of the Eastern Mindanao Command, one of the country’s seven military commands, said that he hopes […]

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Joint special session overwhelmingly votes “yes” to martial law in Mindanao until year-end

  (Eagle News) — An overwhelming majority of the joint special session in Congress said “yes”  to martial law extension in Mindanao until December 31, 2017, with 16 senators and 245 congressmen voting for it, and only four senators and 14 lawmakers voting against it. This was the result of the joint special session in Congress on Saturday, July 22, in a hearing that lasted for almost seven hours, starting at past nine in the […]

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Congress to vote on President Duterte bid for longer martial rule

Congress sits in a special session today to vote on President Rodrigo Duterte’s bid for longer martial rule over Mindanao in a bid to defeat Islamist gunmen. Duterte is widely expected to win approval for martial law in the region until the end of the year, with troops fighting to wrest back the southern city of Marawi following two months of fighting. The military said about 60 Islamic State group-inspired gunmen are left in a […]

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President Duterte to ask for 60-day extension of martial law in Mindanao

Special session of Congress set on Saturday (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte will be asking for a special session of Congress to seek a martial law extension in Mindanao by another 60 days. The special session will be held on Saturday, July 22, where the matter of the need for a martial law extension will be discussed. “The President’s call for a special session is necessitated by the exigency to deliberate on the possible […]

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Malacañang to submit 2018 nat’l budget on SONA day

QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Malacañang said President Rodrigo Duterte will submit the proposed 2018 National Budget to Congress on the day of his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 24. “The President plans to submit the budget on the day of the SONA itself. Why are we doing this? So we can have an early start for the 2018,” Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said in a Palace briefing. The proposed […]

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