(INQUIRER) MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada issued a stern warning Tuesday night to resource persons who answer “disrespectfully” during budget hearings, warning that these agencies could get their budget deferred due to misbehavior. Estrada raised this warning at the Senate’s marathon plenary debates on the proposed 2025 funding of the Philippine…
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Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada urges the Games and Amusement Board (GAB) to address game-fixing schemes in basketball tournaments proactively. During the Senate’s budget deliberations on November 12, 2024, Estrada called on GAB Chairman Francisco Rivera to investigate reports of alleged game-fixing in both amateur and professional sports. He emphasized the importance of…
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(GMA NEWS) Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada on Tuesday floated the abolition of the Optical Media Board (OMB), saying it is no longer relevant due to the shift to online platforms. The actor-turned-senator made the remark during the Senate plenary deliberations on the OMB’s proposed budget for 2025. “Because of the evolution of the…
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(HEAD TOPICS) The number of unresolved cases from the Supreme Court down to the lower courts has reached nearly one million.The number of pending cases was disclosed by Senate finance committee chairperson Grace Poe as she defended the proposed 2025 budget of the Judiciary on the Senate plenary on Monday.It was Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada who inquired…
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Jinggoy backs P64-B judiciary budget: Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, while presiding over the resumption of plenary debates on House Bill No. 10800, or the 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB), which contains the proposed P6.352-trillion national budget, on Monday, November 11, 2024, expresses full support for the passage of the P64-billion allocation for the judiciary—an…
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(PHILSTAR) MANILA, Philippines — A Senate panel passed the P10.506-billion proposed budget for 2025 of the Office of the President (OP) in less than 10 minutes on Monday. During the public hearing of the Senate committee on finance chaired by Sen. Grace Poe, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin said the OP’s proposed budget for 2025 is…
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(GMA NEWS) Senator Jinggoy Estrada on Saturday urged lawmakers to give the Office of the Vice President (OVP) its proposed P2 billion budget for 2025 for it to “function properly.” “Paano naman magpa-function ang OVP kung tatapyasan mo ng pondo? (How will the OVP function if you reduce their budget?) Remember, she is the second highest…
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(MANILA BULLETIN) Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada said on Saturday, Sept. 14, that the budget of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) should be restored following a proposed significant cut in the House of Representatives. Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada said on Saturday, Sept. 14, that the budget of the…
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First of all, I would like to thank you for zealously working with this Representation last year for the passage of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 budget of GCG and CHR. As then a neophyte Chairperson of a Subcommittee of the Committee on Finance, I learned a lot from our collaboration and I am hopeful…
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Jinggoy endorses MTRCB budget to plenary: Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada has endorsed for plenary consideration the proposed P164 million budget of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. During the briefing of MTRCB’s 2025 budget, Estrada underscored the importance of the agency’s role in empowering…
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