Pimentel, Alvarez hold talks on constituent assembly
Senate President Koko Pimentel and House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez met on Tuesday morning in a hotel in Mandaluyong City to ...
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Senate quietly assigns posts
IN contrast to the wangling and bickering at the House of Representatives, senators smoothly filled the vacant committee chairmanships on ...
Read moreSenate to consider gun control
WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats claimed a small victory early Thursday, forcing the US upper house to consider legislation to help keep guns ...
Read moreGuingona, Cayetano had most number of absences – Senate
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, who has been eyeing the Senate presidency in the next Congress, had the most number of ...
Read moreSenate oldies make way for new faces
With the “changing of the guard” in the 17th Congress, four returning senators and four new face will be joining ...
Read moreSolons meet for canvass Tuesday
THE Senate and the House of Representatives will jointly convene on May 24 as part of the National Board of ...
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Senate bets join ‘rigging’ protest
SENATORIAL candidates raised a howl of protest Thursday over discrepancies between the tallied votes recorded by the poll watchdog Parish Pastoral Council ...
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House, Senate hasten bills’ OK
Congressmen rushed the approval on third and final reading of several economic measures in the Senate and in the House ...
Read moreSenate hikes tax-exempt value of balikbayan boxes
The tax-exempt value of pasalubong cargo brought in or sent by Filipinos overseas was raised to P150,000 with the passage ...
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