Zia Alonto Adiong

Senate defers subpoena on Duterte bank records, sets crucial vote for July 20

Vice President Sara Duterte's defense team on Wednesday sought to distance itself from a parallel legal offensive before the Supreme Court aimed at stopping her impeachment trial

The Senate impeachment court has scheduled the start of Duterte’s trial on 6 July

The defense panel has formally filed its comment on the prosecution's manifestation and motion concerning a Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) evidence box, days after rejecting claims that it was trying to keep the documents from public scrutiny

Zia Alonto Adiong has filed a bill seeking a P15 billion supplemental appropriations for Fiscal Year 2026 to support urgent relief, recovery, rehabilitation, repair, and reconstruction efforts in communities devastated by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck offshore near Sarangani Province on June 8, 2026

The so-called “bagmen” of ex-lawmaker Elizadly Co, who identified themselves as former “Marines”, were no-shows at the Tulfo-led Blue Ribbon Committee’s flood control investigation on Monday

Rule-change clash sparks rare Senate shutdown amid fears of ‘tyranny of numbers’

The House of Representatives has voted to approve a version of the Anti-Political Dynasty Bill that prohibits families up to the second degree of civic consanguinity from assuming public office within a specific locality on second reading this Wednesday, 20 May

A House committee has approved a consolidated bill to prohibit political dynasties, a move that leaders say signals a decisive step toward fulfilling a mandate in the 1987 Constitution that has gone unenforced for nearly 40 years

The event focused on 24 proposed measures aimed at defining and implementing the constitutional ban on political dynasties under Article II, Section 26 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution

Sectoral representatives offered their comments, with some urging Congress to file measures against corruption instead