Speaker Lord Allan Velasco calls on the Senate to prioritize the passage of a bill creating the Department of Disaster Resilience as Typhoon Quinta battered different parts of Luzon.
Cayetano tenders his irrevocable resignation as House Speaker, saying the “untenable political situation” at the House of Representatives has prompted him to “put aside all politics.”
The rivalry between newly-elected Speaker Lord Allan Velasco and Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano has ended after the two agreed to “work together” for the timely passage of the proposed PHP4.5-trillion national budget for 2021.
"This period when we are battling a pandemic is not the most appropriate time to conduct the census. We are still getting daily positive cases in the thousands, though the Department of Health is reporting that the numbers are going down."
ROMUALDEZ: “As partners in nation-building, we readily commit ourselves to help realize the concrete plans and approve the proposed legislative measures provided by the President.”
Frasco is confident that the existing law declaring the entire Camotes group of islands in the province's eastern seaboard as forest reserve will be lifted through a bill he is pushing in Congress.
A House of Representatives panel approves the establishment of a special economic zone and freeport adjacent to the proposed New Manila International Airport in Bulacan.