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                    [ArticleID] => 814907
                    [Title] => Senate takes pride in approving 21 bills
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Despite having spent most of its time in the past four months as an impeachment court, the Senate has managed to approve 21 bills – including urgent and priority measures – on third and final reading since the start of the year, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500820 [AuthorName] => Marvin Sy [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 709522 [Title] => Enrile pushes for Cha-cha [Summary] =>

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile pushed anew on Monday the need to amend the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution with the hope of boosting the economic development and creation of more jobs for the Filipinos.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-25 12:54:09 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 709511 [Title] => Opening Remarks of Speaker Belmonte on House 2nd Regular Session [Summary] =>

OPENING REMARKS SECOND REGULAR SESSION 15TH CONGRESS

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-25 10:52:44 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 435834 [Title] => Senators to hold sessions on Thursday mornings [Summary] =>

Starting next week, the Senate will start holding session on Thursday mornings to prioritize the enactment of local bills emanating from the House of Representatives to ensure better relations between the two chambers of Congress.

[DatePublished] => 2009-01-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 343593 [Title] => Jinggoy scores perfect attendance [Summary] => Sen. Jinggoy Estrada again had a perfect attendance record during the Second Regular Session of the 13th Congress this year, data from the Senate’s legislative journal section showed.

Senate secretary Oscar Yabes said yesterday Senate records showed that Estrada attended all 87 sessions from July last year to the first week of June this year.

Estrada was informally adjudged as the best in attendance along with Senate President Franklin Drilon, who is set to turn over the presidency to Sen. Manuel Villar by next month.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 328536 [Title] => ‘Palace unfair on Senate passage of budget’ [Summary] => Senate President Franklin Drilon slammed Malacañang for blaming senators for delays in the approval of the 2006 national budget, pointing out the measure had not been transmitted for approval by the House of Representatives.

Drilon emphasized the Senate has every intention to pass the 2006 budget in May just before the 13 th Congress adjourns its Second Regular Session.

He took note of the statements by Malacañang officials calling on the Senate to approve the budget after the House passed the measure on second reading last Friday.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500820 [AuthorName] => Marvin Sy [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287791 [Title] => July 25 declared a special holiday [Summary] => Expecting political opponents to be out in full force, Malacañang has declared Monday a special non-working day in Metro Manila as President Arroyo prepares to deliver her State of the Nation Address at the Batasang Pambansa complex in Quezon City.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 177988 [Title] => 4 vital bills top Senate priorities [Summary] => After a three-week vacation, the Senate will again try to enact at least four vital measures as the 12th Congress resumes its Second Regular Session today.

Majority Leader Loren Legarda said yesterday administration senators are set to hold a caucus this morning to discuss how to shepherd the passage of the four measures which have been stuck in the legislative mill for several months.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1732629 [AuthorName] => Sammy Santos [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 169296 [Title] => JDV: Cha-cha now inevitable [Summary] => Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. told his House colleagues and the nation yesterday that amending the 1987 Constitution has now become urgent and could no longer be avoided.

Cha-cha (Charter change), "which in the past was debatable, is now inevitable," De Venecia said in a speech outlining his chamber’s priorities and marking the start of the Second Regular Session of the 12th Congress.

This is the "strong sentiment" that has emerged in the House and in First Political Parties Conference that he and the ruling Lakas convened in May, he said.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 169024 [Title] => Opposition vows action vs onerous IPP contracts [Summary] => The united opposition vowed yesterday to immediately work for the annulment of the supposedly onerous contracts with 29 independent power producers (IPPs), saying these have imposed a heavy burden on the Filipinos.

The repeal of the "onerous" IPPs was the highlight of a legislative agenda for the Second Regular Session formulated by the opposition in a two-day workshop at Clark.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1297981 [AuthorName] => Efren Danao [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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