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17 solons seek termination of EO lowering pork import tariffs By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News Published April 14, 2021 4:32pm Seventeen lawmakers from the House of Representatives filed a joint resolution on Wednesday calling for the termination of President Rodrigo Duterte s Executive Order No. 128, which reduces the tariff rate for pork imports. The resolution was filed by Representatives Carlos Isagani Zarate, Rose Marie Arenas, Jose Christopher Belmonte, Arlene Brosas, Argel Joseph Cabatbat, France Castro, Eufemia Cullamat, Lorenz Defensor, Sarah Elago, Edgar Erice, Ferdinand Gaite, Janette Garin, Rico Geron, Jonathan Keith Flores, Edcel Lagman, Geraldine Roman, and Noel Villanueva. The lawmakers said tariff reduction, as well as the increased minimum access volume of pork imports, would further decimate the local pork industry and it would also undermine the local production and the country s food security. ....
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) With 228 affirmative and six negative votes, House Bill 8242 or the Right to Adequate Food Act was approved by the Lower House and will be transmitted to the Senate for its action. HB 8242 entitled “An Act Providing a Framework to Protect and Promote the Right to Adequate Food” contains provisions taken from bills separately filed by Reps. Jericho Jonas B. Nograles (PBA Partylist0; Cheryl P. Deloso Montalla (PDP-Laban, Zambales) and Jose Christopher Belmonte (LP, Quezon City). ` Nograles underscored the need to provide a comprehensive framework law to make the right to adequate food meaningful. “This comprehensive law, will not only harmonize provisions of all laws related to Filipinos’ right to adequate foot but would also clarify the scope and content of the right, establish standards for compliance, lay down principles to shape the process of realization and prohibit violations of the right to adequate food,” Nograles exp ....
MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO Nobody among the lawmakers present raised any objection to the second reading approval of the bill which is expected to be presented for final reading and voting next week Quezon City Rep. Jesus “Bong” Suntay, chairman of the House Committee on Human Rights, lauded the House leadership for directing the swift plenary approval of House Bill No. 8243 or the Equality and Non Discrimination on Race, Ethnicity and Religion Act. Suntay said the bill contains a number of provisions common among five legislative proposals filed on the subject. Among the authors are Reps. Amihilda Sangcopan (Anak Mindanao); Cheryl Deloso-Montalla (NUP, Zambales), Edgar Aglipay (DIWA Partylist); and Jose Christopher Belmonte (LP, Quezon City). ....
The House Committee on Human Rights has proposed imprisonment and fine against persons found guilty of racism or any act of discrimination committed on the basis of color, descent, religion, national, or ethnic origin of another person, including prejudice of portraying the victim in advertisement, ....
Convinced that Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana will be stubborn as a mule, a senior congressman turned instead to Congress to overturn the defense chief’s decision to abrogate the 1989 UP-DND Accord.
Deputy Minority Leader and Quezon City Rep. Jose Christopher Belmonte (Twitter)