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Anticipating rejection by the Commission on Elections of its appeal to extend voters registration, the House of Representatives moved on Wednesday, Sept. 22 to pass a bill making it mandatory for the poll body to abide by its wishes.
voting image In House Bill 10261, Speaker Lord Allan Velasco, ....
Solons seek to criminalize red-tagging By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL MANILA – Lawmakers in the lower house filed a counterpart measure seeking to criminalize public officials, employees or their agents for red-tagging. Nine lawmakers filed on May 24 House Bill 9437, which seeks the imprisonment for up to six years and perpetual absolute disqualification to hold public office for those who will be found guilty of red-tagging. Filed by members of the Makabayan bloc, Quezon City Congressman Jose Christopher Belmonte, Albay Congressman Edcel Lagman and La Union Congressman Pablo Ortega, the bill that red-tagging by public officials and their agents “brings about chilling effect and poses a great danger to the people’s Constitutional right to freedom of expression and the right to political belief without fear of prosecution.” ....
House of Representatives plenary 2 The lawmakers Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, Quezon City Rep. Jose Christopher Belmonte, La Union Rep. Pablo Ortega as well as Makabayan bloc congressmen Bayan Muna Reps. Carlos Zarate, Eufemia Cullamat, Ferdinand Gaite, Gabriela Women’s Party Arlene Brosas, and ACT Teachers’ Partylist Rep. France Castro said red-tagging “has become a very dangerous action or conduct by public officials and their agents.” “Red-tagging should be criminalized for two simple reasons: it is committed through the use of public funds, and it has an injurious and irreversible impact on the victims,” they said in filing House Bill No. 9437 on Monday, May 24. ....
Lawmakers oppose moves to increase pork imports bulatlat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bulatlat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(Photo by Jansen Romero / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) In the joint resolution, the lawmakers also called for the rejection of the Minimum Access Volume (MAG) of pork imports from 54,000 metric tons to 404,000 MTs or an equivalent of 749 percent increase in the current quota. “Tariff reduction and increased MAV of pork imports will further decimate the local pork industry as we know it and will also undermine our local production and food security, as what has happened to the rice industry,” they said. The joint resolution was filed by Representatives Carlos Zarate, Rose Marie Arenas, Jose Christopher Belmonte, Arlene Brosas, Argel Joseph Cabatbat, France Castro, Eufemia Cullamat, Lorenz Defensor, Sarah Jane Elago, Edgar Erice, Ferdinand Gaite, Janette Garin, Rico Gerona, Jonathan Keith Flores, Edcel Lagman, Geraldine Roman, and Noel Villanueva. ....