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Lawmakers finalize 2022 budget with P50B for health workers' SRA

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 15 06:10 PM

The 2022 national budget will have as much as P50 billion for medical frontliners' SRA, almost P48 billion for COVID-19 booster shots, and between P15-16 billion for the NTF-ELCAC. Read more »

Bicameral meeting for P5.024-T 2022 budget begins

Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 06 07:57 PM

Both Houses of Congress aim to ratify the proposed budget next week, Sen. Sonny Angara said. Read more »

House to start plenary debates on 2022 budget

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 17 02:17 PM

The House of Representatives is set to begin plenary deliberations on the 2022 national budget next week. Read more »

Erwin Tulfo to seek House seat in 2022 as partylist rep

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 25 05:06 PM

Radio commentator and online personality Erwin Tulfo will be ACT-CIS partylist’s first nominee in the 2022 elections. Read more »

Gov't must justify NTF-ELCAC, confidential funds sought for 2022: House panel chair

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 25 03:39 PM

The House of Representatives' budget panel chair wants the government to justify the P28.1 billion it allocated for NTF-ELCAC in 2022. Read more »

Palasyo: 2021 buget, 'Bayanihan 2' tingnan muna kung sapat bago mag-'Bayanihan 3'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 08 09:34 PM

Tatlong panukala para sa 'Bayanihan 3' ang nakahain sa Kamara, kabilang ang isinusulong ni House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco.  Read more »

Congress to finalize 2021 nat'l budget 'this week'; 'unimplementable' projects purged

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 08 03:19 PM

House Appropriations Committee chair Eric Go Yap told reporters Tuesday that the bicameral conference committee is set to finish reconciling the Senate and House versions of the budget bill "this week," with a final ratification by both chambers being eyed by Wednesday. Read more »

House to pass 2021 budget by Friday despite Speakership row: panel chair

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 12 01:37 PM

The 2021 national budget will hurdle the House of Representatives by Friday as the Speakership row continued to rage, the chamber's appropriations committee chair said Monday. Read more »

'Gusto kong maging neutral': Yap abstains from vote on Cayetano resignation

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 01 10:31 AM

House budget committee chair Eric Go Yap said Thursday he abstained from voting on House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano's resignation to be "neutral" while the chamber focuses on next year's budget. Read more »

Cayetanos meet with Paolo Duterte, Yap amid House coup rumors

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 27 08:51 PM

Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and wife flew to Davao City over the weekend to meet with Deputy Speaker Paolo Duterte and House Appropriations Committee Chair Eric Go Yap amid coup rumors against Cayetano. Read more »

LOOK: Cayetano, Paolo Duterte meet in Davao City amid House row

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 26 11:42 PM

The 2 lawmakers were pictured alongside Cayetano's wife -- Taguig 2nd District Rep. Maria Laarni Cayetano -- and ACT-CIS party-list Rep. Eric Go Yap. Read more »

House committee head denies solons fighting over ‘pork’ in 2021 budget

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 21 01:33 PM

The leader of the House appropriations panel denied Monday that lawmakers are bickering over the distribution of supposed pork funds in the 2021 national budget.    Read more »

House to respect President's say on Cayetano-Velasco term sharing as Speaker: solon

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 21 01:10 PM

The House of Representatives will respect President Rodrigo Duterte's word on the term-sharing deal that he brokered for Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco.    Read more »

Drilon flags lump sum public funds that may be ‘open to corruption'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 21 01:06 PM

Some infrastructure and anti-insurgency funds for 2021 are “open to corruption” and might be used to boost the election war chest of politicians in the succeeding year, a senator said Monday.  Read more »

Cayetano has '99.9 percent' chance of staying as Speaker: solon

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 21 02:14 PM

House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano has a "99.9 percent" chance of keeping his post, his colleague said, as he denied reports that President Rodrigo Duterte's son would orchestrate a power grab on Monday over the uneven share of funds for lawmakers' districts in the 2021 budget.  Read more »

Paolo Duterte 'never' moved to boot out Cayetano: solon

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 21 11:50 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte's congressman son "never" said he would move to overthrow House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano due to supposed bickering over the 2021 national budget, their peer said Monday.  Read more »

Debate on infra allocations sparks word war over House speakership

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 18 03:30 PM

The chairman of the House committee on appropriations defended Friday the bigger infrastructure budget allocated for Taguig, districts of House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano ang his solon spouse, after a lawmaker questioned it during a previous hearing.  Read more »

Solon denies linking ABS-CBN to alleged P200-M bribe try

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 09 11:44 PM

MANILA (UPDATE) - Lawmaker Eric Go Yap on Thursday denied ABS-CBN Corp. offered him a P200-million bribe to vote for the renewal of the media network's broadcast franchise. Read more »

Amid criticism, lawmaker says renaming NAIA will repair airport's negative image

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 26 10:13 PM

A lawmaker pushing to rename Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on Friday deflected criticism about the timing of the proposal amid the pandemic, saying it is "high time" to "let go of its negative image." Read more »

President's son Paolo Duterte files bill to rename NAIA

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 25 05:23 PM

The Ninoy Aquino International Airport should be renamed to be easily identifiable as the Philippines' main terminal, President Rodrigo Duterte's congressman son said in a proposed law. Read more »