HOUSE Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Joey Sarte Salceda said on Wednesday that both immediate and long-term solutions to increase rice supply, including reviewing programs under the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF), are needed to address hunger in non-rice-producing communities in the Philippines. Salceda made the statement as the…
The House of Representatives on Wednesday endorsed for Senate approval the bill penalizing bulk cash smuggling and tightening the country’s measures against the transit of large amounts of cash to and from the Philippines. This is after lawmakers with 266 votes approved on third and final reading House Bill 8200,…
THE House of Representatives on Wednesday endorsed for Senate approval two of the Marcos administration’s priority bills allowing a shift of the country’s power generation from the use of coal to the utilization of natural gas and establishing the Philippine Ecosystem and Natural Capital Accounting System (Pencas). This was after…
HOUSE Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Joey Sarte Salceda said that he expects President Marcos to focus less on recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and to focus more on “moving forward with the task of national greatness,” including fiscal consolidation. “The most important triumph of this administration is getting…
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