OVP 2025 budget: Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada congratulates Vice President Sara Duterte during Wednesday’s plenary deliberations on November 13, 2024, after no senator came forward to interpellate or raise questions on the P733-million budget proposed by the Senate finance committee for the Office of the Vice President (OVP) for the next fiscal…
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Eradicate Game-Fixing: Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada expresses his concerns about game-fixing activities especially in amateur and professional basketball leagues to Games and Amusements Board (GAB) Chairman Francisco Rivera during a lull in Tuesday night’s plenary deliberations on the proposed 2025 national budget, November 12, 2024. Estrada, who has filed a bill to…
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Jinggoy urges GAB to address game-fixing in basketball tourneys: 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…
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Jinggoy questions anew the continuing existence of the Optical Media Board (OMB) : Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada once again raised his proposal to abolish the Optical Media Board (OMB) during Tuesday’s continuing budget debates on November 12, 2024,arguing that the agency’s objectives, duties, and responsibilities have been rendered obsolete by significant technological advancements in the…
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Courtesy visit: Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada warmly welcomes (L-R) Philippine Carabao Center’s Aimee Fulgencio; Executive Dir. Liza Battad; Executive Committee members Directors Ester Flores and Eric Palacpac as they pay a courtesy visit on Monday, November 11, 2024, at his Senate office. The PCC officials thanked Estrada for co-authoring Senate Bill 2558, the proposed “Livestock,…
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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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Jinggoy sponsors proposed Chemical Weapons Prohibition Act: Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada sponsors the committee report on the proposed Chemical Weapons Prohibition Act on Tuesday evening, November 5, 2024. The Senate Committee on National Defense and Security Chairperson said in his speech that the measure is a long overdue legislation, an international obligation to the Chemical…
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Jinggoy wants more teeth to workers’ right to form unions: Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada files a bill seeking to boost the rights of workers to organize by making it a crime for employers and government authorities to interfere with or harass those joining workers’ unions. Senate Bill No. 2735 or the proposed “Strengthening the Freedom…
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Jinggoy honors late grandma during Undas: Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada visits the tomb of his late maternal grandmother, Manuela Pimentel, at the Iba Municipal Cemetery in Zambales on Friday, November 1, 2024, in observance of “Undas” – the traditional yearly visit of Filipinos to their loved ones’ graves on All Saints’ Day…
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Jinggoy meets with AICS beneficiaries in San Carlos City, Pangasinan: Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada meets with over a thousand beneficiaries of Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (ICS) program payout activity at the Arenas Resuello Sports Complex in San Carlos City, Pangasinan on Wednesday, October 30, 2024. Estrada was accompanied by Mayor…
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