Our friends at Congressional Observer (who are even more indolent than us when it comes to updates) report the House of Representatives has been as quiet as a tomb these past few weeks. Have you ever seen a Congress that is really quiet? During session breaks, it is really a ghost town. With the exception [...]
This is why we can’t have nice things like a law authorizing the government to talk to women about contraception and reproductive rights. No wonder reporters on the House beat have resorted to intrigues and infighting. This place is so dead two hours after the session is supposed to start, they cannot be blamed [...]
A rare sighting of Senator Manuel Lapid has him giving his views on the controversial Reproductive Health bill and basically giving proof of life. This interview with Lapid is “rare” not because the senator hates talking to people but because seeing him at the Senate is just as rare. This photograph wasn’t even taken [...]
Quezon City Representative Winston Castelo has filed a bill to penalize the stupid art of planking after students protesting oil price hikes this week planked on the roads during a transport strike. “Parents and teachers have reason to be alarmed… The Filipino psyche of our young children in school is under attack—right here and now,” [...]
Little more than a year into a three-year term, Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao has already had enough of the House of Representatives and wants to move to the Sarangani provincial capitol in 2013. The professional boxer and part-time congressman is reportedly “[dismayed] over the slow pace of how changes for the country are made [...]
Here’s a nice reversal on things. Sectoral group Bayan Muna filed a plunder case against Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Thursday over the failed ZTE National Broadband Network deal. Reporters scrambled to cover it and got the story. Here is a sidebar to the whole thing: While this was going on, politician sent out a text [...]
A self-proclaimed Iron Lady from Congress has been taking potshots at the Aquino administration lately, pouncing on pretty much any issue she can. When a mayor from Mindanao complained earlier this year about inadequate calamity assistance in his flooded city, Iron Lady was there to hector him on. Not on the ground, where it would [...]
In Worse Than Free (2005), journalist and personal superhero Vergel Santos scored Noli de Castro for shilling a brand of brandy in a television commercial while still a news presenter for ABS-CBN. He said de Castro, by agreeing to endorse Emperador Brandy, “increased his television exposure, not to mention his earnings” and ended up topping [...]