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Press Release TRANSCRIPT OF SEN. GRACE POEs SPEECH Mr. President, as chairperson of the Senate contingent to the bicameral conference committee on the proposed amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering Act, I now have the privilege to report to the body the approved version of the bill. There were many conflicting provisions between the Senate Bill No. 1945 and House Bill No. 7904, but through the hardwork and perseverance of our colleagues, Senators Recto and Drilon, as Senate conferees, and tha...

Press Release Transcript of Sen. Grace Poes Speech Mr. President, as chairperson of the Senate contingent to the bicameral conference committee on the proposed Financial Institution Strategic Transfer Act, I now have the privilege to report to the body the approved version of our bill. The bicameral conference committee agreed to use the Senate version as the working draft since the House adopted most of the provisions in our version. With the hard work of our colleagues, Senators Recto and Dri...

Press Release Good afternoon Mr. President, I rise on a matter of personal and collective privilege. In last Wednesdays session here in the Senate, during the interpellations on the bicameral conference committee report on the 2021 National Budget, Senators Ralph Recto, Frank Drilon, and Dick Gordon, among others, asked a series of pointed questions on the 72.5-billion-peso budget allocation for the purchase of Covid vaccines and the governments rollout plan. Questions such as the following: Ho...