The leadership of the House of Representatives is calling on all candidates in the May 2016 local and national elections to voluntary declare and observe a political ceasefire this Holy Week to properly mark this period of prayer and meditation.

The House of Representatives has mourned the loss of  former Senate President Jovito Salonga,  whom it described as a staunch defender of our freedoms and a  “bastion of Philippine democracy.”

Davao City Representative Karlo Alexei Nograles of the National Unity Party (NUP) is pushing the creation of a Cabinet-level government agency that would focus on sports development and the needs of Filipino athletes in the country.

Seventy members of the House of Representatives, including Deputy Speaker Roberto Puno of the National Unity Party (NUP), are set to either complete their third and last terms or seek higher elective positions this year.

Some two dozen measures passed by the House of Representatives aimed at improving the country’s health care system and protecting the welfare of women and children have remained pending in the Senate, congressional records show.