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Sen. Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla pushed Tuesday for incentives for foreign filmmakers doing location shooting in the Philippines, especially with a big Hollywood movie project looming.
The House of Representatives approved the sponsorship of the proposed budget of the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office (PLLO) for Fiscal Year 2024, 26 September 2023.
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva, principal sponsor of the Increased Social Pension of Indigent Senior Citizens Law, asked the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to pull out all the stops to ensure funding in the increase of the monthly social pension of the country's indigent senior citizens.
Senator Win Gatchalian flagged unfilled positions and low salaries in the country's tax-collecting agencies.
Senator Risa Hontiveros is advocating for game-changing reforms in the energy sector to alleviate the burden of high power rates on Filipino consumers. She insists on the need to reduce the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) and other private distribution utilities' (PDUs) hefty Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) and eliminate the value-added tax (VAT) imposed on system losses and lifeline subsidies.
EDCOM 2 (Second Congressional Commission on Education) Co-Chairperson Senator Sherwin Gatchalian noted that the share of the poorest scholars under the Tertiary Education Subsidy (TES) program has continuously declined since 2018.
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, October 2) — The Maharlika Investment Corp. (MIC) may be operational by the first quarter of next year, with the final list of nominees for key positions in the corporation expected on the table of the Palace this week, Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno said on Monday.
SEN. Christopher «Bong» Go has pressed for a bigger budget for government health care programs, such as those addressing cancer, tuberculosis and mental health disorders.