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Tag: house of representatives

  • VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Tatlong bagay na kailangan mong malaman tungkol sa mga confidential at intelligence fund

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 30, 2022 1:15 PM

    Inaprubahan ng Senado noong Nob. 23 ang panukalang P5.27 trillion na pambansang budget para sa 2023. Ni-realign nito ang hindi bababa sa P170 milyon na confidential na pondo ng iba’t ibang ahensya ng gobyerno sa kanilang maintenance at iba pang operating expenses.

    2023, commission on audit, confidential funds, Department of Budget and Management, Edcel Lagman, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, General Appropriations Act, house of representatives, intelligence funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

  • VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds
    Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Three things you need to know about confidential and intelligence funds

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 30, 2022 1:15 PM

    What are confidential and intelligence funds? For what can these be used?

    2023, commission on audit, confidential funds, Department of Budget and Management, Edcel Lagman, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, General Appropriations Act, house of representatives, intelligence funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

  • 052521-misleading-rotc-approved_web-copy.png
    Categories FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB page MISLEADS with 2019 news on ROTC House bill

    By VERA Files  |  May 26, 2021 2:52 PM

    A few netizens were able to point out that the alleged “breaking news” report was two years old.

    House bill, house of representatives, ROTC

  • 052421-misleading-leonen-impeached_web-copy.png
    Categories FACT CHECK

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that SC Justice Leonen impeached MISLEADING

    By VERA Files  |  May 25, 2021 1:01 PM

    Impeachment of members of the Supreme Court is initiated in the House of Representatives and the trial against Leonen has yet to begin.

    house of representatives, impeachment, Leonen, supreme court

  • Alan Peter Cayetano.jpg
    Categories Commentary

    Ungentlemanly fight over a gentlemen’s agreement

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  Oct 05, 2020 7:15 AM

    Alan Peter Cayetano and Lord Allan Velasco, congressmen of Taguig-Pateros and Marinduque, respectively, are like children fighting over the speakership of the House of Representatives as if it were a toy or a lollipop.

    Alan Peter Cayetano, house of representatives, Lord Allan Velasco, speakership

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    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: SALN, FOI sa Kongreso ipinaliwanag

    By VERA FILES  |  Feb 26, 2019 2:56 PM

    Narito ang tatlong bagay na kailangan mong malaman tungkol sa SALN.

    Freedom of Information, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, house of representatives, pantaleon alvarez, saln

  • karlo nograles.jpg
    Categories FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Nograles wrong on cash-based budget

    By VERA FILES  |  Aug 16, 2018 4:53 PM

    Nograles, said the Philippines needs “practice” and a “transition” phase for the proposed budget system.

    DBM, house of representatives, Karlo Nograles

  • Sep 12 2017  approve GAA 2018.jpg
    Categories Commentary

    The CHR moment — forking between Duterte and the Constitution

    By Segundo E. Romero, Jr.  |  Sep 13, 2017 3:33 PM

    A vehicle like a boat requires stabilizing mechanisms. A katig (outrigger) serves this purpose. The katig prevents a boat from leaning too much on one or the other side, thus preventing the boat from capsizing. Remove the katig, and the boat may be fine in calm waters. But it will quickly capsize in rough or turbulent waters.

    2018 Budget, Commission on Human Rights, house of representatives

  • Categories Banner Road Safety Stories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page

    Despite glaring data, road crashes ‘not a public health issue’

    Aug 18, 2016 3:33 PM

    By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL WITH startling clarity, 22-year-old Joshua Broqueza recalls how a split second in his life landed him in a hospital bed, bleeding and almost lifeless. It was […]

    #roadsafety, #SafeRoadsPH, house of representatives, road crash

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