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Iloilo City's lone district Representative Julienne Baronda, Negros Occidental Third District Representative Kiko Benitez, and Iloilo Third District Representative Lorenz Defensor emerged as the top performers in the "Boses ng Bayan" survey conducted by the RP-Mission and Development Foundation Inc. (RPMD) in Western Visayas.

SENATOR Christopher “Bong” Go personally attended the groundbreaking of a new Super Health Center in Barangay Pasig, Lambunao, Iloilo, on Friday, March 22. This part of the collaborative efforts of Go, fellow lawmakers, the Department of Health (DOH) and local government units (LGUs) to bring primary health services closer to…

The House Committee on Energy queries the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) on why the corporation was not able to update other energy..

Solons demand citing substantial financial losses, members of the House of Representatives on Thursday demanded accountability from the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on the persistent power issues on Panay Island. During the House Committee on Energy hearing, Iloilo Rep. Lorenz Defensor expressed his frustration, labeling the…

The Senate and the House Committees on Energy scheduled their inquiries into the recent power outage that hit the entire island province of Panay for next week.

THE Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Fair (BPSF) of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. targets over 100,000 beneficiaries in Iloilo.

Citing the “crisis” in the country’s correctional system, a lawmaker has lamented the deterioration of the country’s penal institutions into “breeding grounds of despair and recidivism,” and called on Congress to help revert them into places of rehabilitation and transformation. In demonstrating the appalling state of the Philippines penal facilities, Bicol Saro…

THE Visayan bloc at the House of Representatives yesterday joined various political parties in affirming their full support for the leadership of Speaker F...

In a sudden turn of events, the leadership of the House of Representatives demoted Wednesday night former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as senior deputy speaker, and replaced her with her provincemate, Deputy Speaker Aurelio Gonzales Jr.

House rules that have been in place since the pandemic allow lawmakers to attend plenary sessions virtually. The result is a House floor with only a small fraction of congressmen physically present.