TAKE PROPOSED SIM REGISTRATION INTO SERIOUS CONSIDERATION: Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, during Monday’s plenary session, September 5, 2022, expresses serious concern over the rampant text scams and raised alarm over apparent violations of data privacy and misrepresentations. Estrada, in a privilege speech, cited various incidents of scam text messages employed against several public servants by…
Read more
PRIVILEGE SPEECHSENATOR JINGGOY EJERCITO ESTRADA5 SEPTEMBER 2022 Senate of the Philippines SCRAM SPAM AND SCAM TEXT MESSAGES With the indulgence of my colleagues in this chamber, I take the floor on a matter of personal and collective privilege. History has shown how crisis brought about innovation during the global health pandemic and amid several months…
Read more
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Christopher “Bong” Go opposed the proposal to stop COVID-19 aid distribution while Senator Jinggoy Estrada pushed for its “careful” review. The senators’ remarks came after Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno said that there is no need for the aid to continue as the country’s economy has recovered from the pandemic. “I totally disagree na…
Read more
Two ambassadors get CA nod — Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairperson, Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, presides over the Commission on Appointments (CA) confirmation hearing today, August 31, 2022 to tackle the ad interim appointment of Department of Foreign Affairs Sec. Luis Enrique Manalo, and the nominations of Jose Manuel Romualdez, Philippine Ambassador to the United…
Read more
CA PANEL TACKLES APPOINTMENTS OF DFA CHIEF AND TWO AMBASSADORS: Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, chairperson of the Commission on Appointments (CA) Committee on Foreign Relations, presides over CA’s hybrid hearing to tackle the confirmation of Department of Foreign Affairs Sec. Luis Enrique Manalo. Also taken up during Wednesday’s proceedings, August 31, 2022, were the nominations…
Read more
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Appointments (CA) on Wednesday approved the nominations of the Philippines’ envoys to the United States (US) and the United Nations (UN). Before the CA’s plenary session, the Committee on Foreign Affairs deliberated on and recommended the approval of the nominations of Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to…
Read more
Inirekomenda ni Senator Jinggoy Estrada ang pagbibigay ng condonation o hindi pagpapataw ng multa sa mga household employers na hindi nakapagbayad ng kontribusyon sa Social Security System (SSS). Ang isinusulong na ito ay pinaniniwalaan ni Estrada na isang win-win solution dahil hindi na pagbabayarin ng multa sa utang na kontribusyon sa SSS ang mga amo…
Read more
Protect seniors from text scams, ‘budol-budol’: Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada pushes for the passage of Senate Bill 671 or the proposed Senior Citizens’ Fraud Education Act to protect the elderly consumers from being victimized by cyber crime syndicates. SBN 671 seeks the establishment of an inter-agency centralized service to ward off scammers from carrying out…
Read more
Senator Jinggoy Estrada, taking up the cudgels for aging military veterans bearing the rising costs of medical and other pressing needs, prodded Congress on Monday to frontload passage of an awaited remedial law “proposing to increase by 350 percent to 488 percent their disability pension.” In pressing for an upward adjustment in their pension fund,…
Read more
NO PERFORMANCE BOND: Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, during the hybrid Blue Ribbon Committee investigation Tuesday, August 30, 2022, asks former Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) chief Hermenegildo Serafica to why the agency did not require sugar importers to post performance bond in the botched importation of 300,000 metric tons of sugar. While Serafica said that the…
Read more
