TONYO CRUZ

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  • Vote on veto override: Too much to ask?

    Vote on veto override: Too much to ask?

    Speaker Feliciano Belmonte did not vote against the SSS pension increase bill. Actually, not a single congressman voted against it. It was approved unanimously without objections last year. And so when President BS Aquino shamelessly vetoed the bill this year, its principal authors and SSS retirees were not expecting big problems towards overriding the veto.…

  • Full texts of pending ‘Cybercrime’ Prevention bills

    While Filipino netizens are pressing government, Congress included, for action so we could finally have #betterinternet, some Members of Congress want to do something else: Launch a crackdown on vaguely-defined “cybercrimes”. Lawmakers have not given up on their dangerous project and on Feb. 2, the House ICT Committee holds a meeting to tackle seven “cybercrime”…

  • Full Text of President Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address 2009

    Here is the full text of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s speech before a joint session of Congress today, July 27, at the Batasan Pambansa. Outside of the legislature, tens of thousands were protesting, and vowing to make it her last State of the Nation Address ever. Previous SONA speeches: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,…