Tag: House of Representatives

PDP Laban TORN by Pacquiao’s Declaration of House Speaker Nominee

June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 P. Farol 5 Comments

Senator Manny Pacquiao’s announcement that PDP Laban was backing Marinduque representative Lord Allan Jay Velasco as House Speaker seems to have TORN apart the single largest party in the House of Representatives. On the strength of a “manifesto” of support — perhaps similar to the manifesto of support for Senator Tito Sotto as Senate President…

Politics

“Bahala Na Si Tatay Digong” road to the House Speakership

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 P. Farol 3 Comments

Last night I posted about the dinner conversation I had with friends over at the House of Representatives where in we did the best we can to come up with a plausible guess as to who’d become House Speaker. At one point in the conversation, we found ourselves amused by the prospect of Taguig Representative…

Politics

The Next House Speaker Will Be Crucial in the Post Aquino Era

May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 P. Farol 3 Comments

The results of the 2019 Philippine mid-term elections could very well be ushering in the start of the post Aquino era which some say was largely defined by an almost paralyzing fear of a return to a tyrannical regime and hate for the Marcoses in particular. There are political scholars who say that the bulk…

Politics

House Rep. John Bertiz’s arrogance mirrors the character of the Filipino people

October 2, 2018October 2, 2018 benign0 27 Comments

The brouhaha over House Representative John Bertiz not removing his shoes for a security check at the Manila International Airport is, itself, evidence that rules and the Law don’t really rule in the Philippines. In a modern society of laws, such a display of arrogance would have been swiftly dealt with and not have required…

Culture, Society

In 2011, Hermilando Mandanas was also removed from a Committee chairmanship

September 21, 2016 Celestino Manrique II 10 Comments

Things have gotten a little exciting in the Senate after Senator Leila De Lima was removed as chairperson of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights. 16 Senators approved the motion by Senator Manny Pacquiao to remove De Lima as chair of the committee while 4 voted against it and 2 abstained. De Lima…

Government, Politics

Congress, the ‘biggest criminal syndicate in the Philippines’, approves terrorist #Bangsamoro Basic Law!

May 21, 2015May 21, 2015 benign0 23 Comments

Clearly, the approval of the Bangsamoro Basic Law by the House Ad Hoc Committee was a case of railroading. The committee, for starters, was padded with Malacanang allies. And, not surprisingly, the “investment” paid off. CNN Philippines reports… Malacañan allies in the House of Representatives comprised the majority of the 48 votes favoring the BBL….

Crime, Government, Politics, Religion, The South

Taxpayers’ money will continue to be wasted even if Pork is spent honestly

August 27, 2013August 27, 2013 benign0 17 Comments

There’s lot’s of argument surrounding the fate of the Priority Development Assistance or “Pork Barrel” Funds already flying about. Should legislators be allowed continued access to all those billions of pesos in taxpayers’ funds? The answer to that had already been settled under the really simple principle — that executives execute, and legislators legislate. Quite…

Crime, Development, Government, Politics

Benjo Benaldo’s million-dollar lifestyle explains how he bagged his trophy wife

June 29, 2013June 29, 2013 Kate Natividad 36 Comments

I used to wonder how an obscure former Congressman from Cagayan de Oro could bag a hot Brazilian babe like Daiana Menezes. But then after reading about his million-dollar lifestyle in a Mindanao Gold Star Daily article describing his “imeldific” lifestyle, it suddenly all made sense to me. What red-blooded female after all can resist…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle