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“We live in very unusual times,” says Executive Secretary Medialdea as he explains needs for emergency powers (Eagle News) – The House of Representatives convened for the first time online in a special session to address urgent matters, including the grant of emergency powers to President Rodrigo Duterte, to address the country’s needs amid the coronavirus outbreak. The Lower House held the special session on Monday morning, March 23, 2020, with around 20 lawmakers […]
https://youtu.be/1gaCFi9hDN8 (Eagle News) — Malacanang is open to the suggestion of Albay Rep. Joey Salceda to grant emergency powers to President Rodrigo Duterte so hasten the government’s “Build, Build, Build” projects. Salceda, who chairs the House Committee on Ways and Means, has filed a proposal — House Bill 5456 – seeking to grant President Duterte with special powers in adopting a national policy to “speed up the implementation” of the Build, Build, Build program […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Koko Pimentel has urged Congress to revisit the proposal to grant emergency powers to President Rodrigo Duterte to address what he said was the worsening traffic in Metro Manila. Pimentel, however, stopped short of saying the powers should be granted to the President, who had requested for the same upon assumption of office. This even as he acknowledged that those emergency powers may allow the government to immediately enter into projects that can […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Bong Revilla has backed the grant of emergency powers to address the traffic problem, saying such will “facilitate and speed up” the actions of the government. In a statement, Revilla said he would ask the committee on public services led by Senator Grace Poe to reconsider its decision not to grant the powers to the President. “Totoo na marami namang kapangyarihan sa kasalukuyan kahit wala pang emergency powers. Pero mabagal ang usad dahil […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Grace Poe on Friday, Sept. 13, maintained she was not against the grant of emergency powers for traffic problems to be addressed but said this “cannot be a shotgun approach.” “For you to give something as immense as the emergency powers, you have to be sniper accurate… It’s like giving a loaded gun to a child if they don’t have a plan,” she said. According to Poe, “there are already several laws in […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Grace Poe is still not convinced President Rodrigo Duterte needs to be given emergency powers for the traffic problem in Metro Manila to be resolved. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Sept. 10, Poe, the chair of the Senate committee on public services, said there were other things that the Department of Transportation could do on its own without the powers. During her panel’s hearing on the proposed bus ban on Edsa, Poe said […]
(Eagle News) – Senator Francis Tolentino filed a bill which will declare the “existence of a national emergency” due to the traffic and congestion crisis in various metropolitan centers in the country. Senate Bill 213 also seeks to grant emergency powers for two years to the President to address this traffic crisis. “This bill proposes to declare the existence of a national emergency in view of the traffic and congestion crisis in Metropolitan Manila, Metropolitan […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Grace Poe on Friday revived her call for Congress to pass a bill that would grant President Rodrigo Duterte emergency powers to address vehicular congestion in Metro Manila. Poe did this after the Japan International Cooperation Agency said around P3.5 billion per day were lost due to traffic in the country, a figure that was higher than the P2.4 billion JICA estimated was lost per day in 2012. According to Poe, the […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said that President Rodrigo Duterte should be granted emergency powers to solve the traffic situation in the country. Andanar said that granting emergency powers to President Duterte, especially this coming holiday season, will help solve the traffic problem in Metro Manila. Under Senate Bill No. 11 or the Transportation Crisis Act of 2016, the President will be given the power to solve the traffic […]
(Eagle News) — Balik-trabaho na si Senador JV Ejercito matapos masuspinde dahil sa kinakaharap na kasong graft. Napaaga ang pagbabalik sa Senado ni Ejercito matapos siyang i-abswelto ng Sandiganbayan. At dahil balik na muli sa kaniyang trabaho, uunahin aniya ang nakapending na emergency powers para maresolba ang matinding problema sa traffic. https://youtu.be/nII7V1KQmP8
(Eagle News) — Inaasahang tatalakayin ng Kongreso sa Pebrero ang panukalang batas na naglalayong mabigyan ng emergency powers si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte para maresolba ang matinding trapiko. Ayon kay Catanduanes Representative Cesar Sarmiento, maraming mga tinukoy na proyekto na nasa ilalim ng emergency measures na hindi pa kasama sa 2017 budget ang pondo. Maaari aniya na sa pamamagitan ng supplemental budget ay mapondohan ang mga nasabing proyekto. Kabilang sa emergency powers ang detalye sa bawat […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said that the government is not able to take massive steps to resolve the traffic problem due to the failure to grant emergency powers to President Rodrigo Duterte. According to the Secretary, the Department of Transportation (DoTr) is doing all it can to resolve the traffic problem. https://youtu.be/Vk9K0YlPS1c
