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MENSAHE NI SEN. KIKO PANGILINAN PARA SA MGA BAGONG GRADUATE

March 24, 2018

Congratulations sa mga bagong graduate, at sa mga magulang! Sa bagong nagtapos, ang graduation ay isang pagdiriwang ng isang natapos na kabanata sa iyong buhay iskwela, at paghahanda para sa susunod pang mga yugto. Ang pag-aaral ay isang tuloy-tuloy at kapana-panabik na karanasan na lampas sa mga pader ng akademya.

Senate committee OK’s anti-political dynasty bill, majority of senators signs committee report

March 22, 2018

A majority of senators on Wednesday evening signed the consolidated bill banning political dynasties. Senate Bill No. 1765 or the Anti-Political Dynasty Act of 2018 defines political dynasty as the “concentration, consolidation, and/or perpetuation of public office and political powers by persons related to one another within the second degree

EXPLANATION OF VOTE OF SENATOR FRANCIS PANGILINAN ON SENATE BILL 1233 THE COCONUT FARMERS AND INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT ACT

March 19, 2018

Mr. President, may I explain my vote. On November 9, 2016, the Committee on Agriculture and Food, which I then chaired, came out with the original Senate Bill No. 1233, the proposed Coconut Farmers and Industry Development Act, which was crafted with the active participation of farmers organizations and their

People don’t trust Congress in cha-cha moves as deleting ‘love’, ‘truth’, ‘freedom’ angers artists

March 18, 2018

BAGUIO CITY — A number of people invited in Friday’s Senate regional consultative hearing on Charter change here don’t trust Congress in cha-cha moves, Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson observed. Meanwhile, artists who grouped themselves into Task Force Chacha are angered by the deletion of “love,” “truth,” and “freedom” in the

Cordillera youth to senators: Don’t rush federalism

March 16, 2018

BAGUIO CITY — Representatives of youth groups on Friday appealed to senators not to rush federalism when the vast majority of Filipinos don’t understand its effect on their lives. At the resumption of Senate regional consultative hearings here, Maria Meryl Isidro, of the Student Council Alliance of the Philippines (SCAP),

Cha-cha concom member ex-SP Nene Pimentel, 9 others reject no-election scenario

March 13, 2018

Former Senate President Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel Jr. and 9 other resource persons at the Senate public hearing on Charter change on Tuesday rejected the scenario of no elections in the course of amending or revising the Constitution. “I do not support any move to defer the election set for May

OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR FRANCIS PANGILINAN SENATE HEARING ON CHARTER CHANGE

March 13, 2018

…So from Cotabato last week, Baguio next Friday, we are now back in Manila. And what I’ve heard repeatedly in all these hearings with respect to Manila is we have been derisively called Imperial Manila, mainly because of the unequal distribution of wealth, the lopsided allocation of resources towards urban