Congressmen want to restore the proposed P49.7-billion 2025 budget of the Commission on Elections, which the Department of Budget and Management slashed by P14.2 billion.

A 64-year-old warden of the Davao penal colony who is set to retire in November virtually tagged former president Rodrigo Duterte as the mastermind in the alleged killing of three convicted Chinese drug traffickers in August 2016.

The Department of Budget and Management formally turned over yesterday the proposed P6.352-trillion national budget for 2025 to the House of Representatives, with the P1.035-trillion allocation for local government units topping the spending priorities.

It may have been a slip of the tongue. The cat, nevertheless, is out of the bag, so to speak.

Administration lawmakers yesterday vowed to unmask government officials in Davao City who were behind the alleged scheme of giving Chinese nationals falsified birth certificates for the purpose of applying for a Philippine passport.

The House of Representatives has approved on second reading a measure that will finally amend a 65-year-old law prohibiting foreign medical students who studied in the country from practicing the profession in their home country.

In light of increased cyber attacks, a lawmaker called on his colleagues in the House of Representatives to hasten the approval of measures that will protect the country’s digital infrastructure and penalize hackers.

An administration lawmaker is urging the House of Representatives to conduct a probe into the reported gentleman’s agreement on the West Philippine Sea between former president Rodrigo Duterte and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Speaker Martin Romualdez yesterday served notice to his colleagues in the House of Representatives about the “prioritization” of measures that will help mitigate the burden of commuters in public transportation, like the proposal to utilize motorcycle ...

With the regular recurrence of dry spells, it is time to make the installation of a rainwater collection system “mandatory” in all buildings, residential or commercial, if only to mitigate flooding, according to a senior administration lawmaker.

Key officials of the House of Representatives have floated the disparity in the legislative performance of the two chambers of the bicameral Congress, where the Senate paled in comparison to the House.

Speaker Martin Romualdez yesterday expressed his gratitude to the Filipino people for the high trust and performance ratings he received, as shown in a recent survey conducted by the OCTA Research group.

Deepfakes and artificial intelligence (AI) are a risk as the May 2025 midterm elections approach, according to the Department of Information and Communications Technology.

The House of Representatives committee on legislative franchises yesterday decided to issue a subpoena to Pastor Apollo Quiboloy with regard to the defiant stance of his Sonshine Media Network International despite a temporary shutdown order for violat...

The Department of Social Welfare and Development has so far delisted about 100,000 families from the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program because of anomalies.

Introducing “economic only” changes in the 1987 Constitution, as contained in Resolution of Both Houses 6, can never be a basis for a shift to parliamentary form of government, according to House leaders.

Senate hearings on Charter change are set for Monday, with discussions to focus on restrictive economic provisions affecting select industries, according to Sen. Sonny Angara, who stressed they would avoid tinkering with elected officials’ term limits.

President Marcos should take a serious look at the qualifications of officials of the Commission on Higher Education after they ordered a “stoppage” of the K-12 educational program of the state universities and colleges taking in senior high school (SH...

As he prepares to sign the P5.768-trillion budget program tomorrow, President Marcos yesterday declared as a “settled issue” the controversy over the aborted inclusion of P650-million confidential funds in the 2024 budgets of the Office of Vice Preside...

An official of the House of Representatives has defended President Marcos for voicing his openness to amending the Constitution – particularly its economic provisions – and chided the Senate for its “obstructionist stance.”

China is involved in a “creeping invasion” of the Philippines through massive real estate acquisition using laundered money, Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers said yesterday.

Lawmakers will make another pitch for constitutional amendments next year, focusing on economic provisions deemed “very prohibitive,” Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez said yesterday.

Senators and congressmen comprising the bicameral conference committee of Congress approved yesterday the final version of the P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024, where the “legacy” budget allocations of President Marcos have been outlined.

Drug kingpins who have been lording it over national penitentiaries for decades may soon spend more years behind bars once a measure at the House of Representatives is approved and concurred in by the Senate.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union has expressed concern over the death threats issued by former president Rodrigo Duterte against progressive lawmaker Rep. France Castro.

The series of raids conducted on warehouses containing hoarded and smuggled rice and the House of Representatives’ decision to realign confidential and intelligence funds away from civilian agencies were among the factors that improved the ratings of S...

Filipino voters, most particularly families whose loved ones are overseas Filipino workers should vote today for candidates in the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections who have their interest in mind and truly understand their situation, a lawma...

A senior administration legislator is calling on the Marcos administration to do all it can in ensuring that no Filipino is trapped in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Legislative work will continue at the House of Representatives despite accusations  hurled by former president Rodrigo Duterte, who was apparently offended by the chamber’s realignment of his daughter’s confidential funds, a House official said yesterd...

In view of the public outcry for more transparency, the rules governing utilization of confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) should be “tightened” to prevent politicians from wasting hard-earned taxpayers’ money, a militant lawmaker suggested over...

The House of Representatives has officially removed from its roll of members the An Waray party-list after the Commission on Elections disqualified the group for allegedly violating the law governing sectoral representatives in Congress.

After sari-sari store owners and rice retailers, President Marcos is not discounting the possibility of granting P15,000 in cash aid to farmers gravely hit by El Niño, the Department of Social Welfare and Development said yesterday.

The certification by President Marcos of the General Appropriations Bill of 2024 (House Bill 8980) as “urgent” will ensure its passage on time as the House of Representatives conducts plenary deliberations on government agencies’ proposed allocations, ...

Speaker Martin Romualdez yesterday stood by the constitutionality of the Maharlika Investment Fund Act of 2023 after lawmakers asked the Supreme Court to void and stop the implementation of the MIF Law.

Speaker Martin Romualdez is leaving it up to Harvard University to discuss reports that he had donated $2 million, saying the school has a policy with regard to such arrangements.

Filipinos shouldn’t be sleeping with the enemy.

The internal computer system of the Office of the Ombudsman has been hacked and at least three persons managed to gain access to administrative and graft cases against government officials, Ombudsman Samuel Martires disclosed to lawmakers yesterday.

The House of Representatives under the leadership of Speaker Martin Romualdez is “on the right track” as the chamber tries to help the Marcos administration lower the prices of rice, among others, a congressman said.