AS a significant political and electoral reform measure, Republic Act 7491 set up the mechanism of the party-list system to ensure proportional representation in the election of representatives to the House of Representatives, allowing underrepresented...

ECHOING what President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said in her State of the Nation Address a month earlier, an Executive Order has created a Consultative Commission that will "bring the great debate on charter change to the people." The Commission will...

ON the fifth day of hearings on the impeachment complaints filed against Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the House committee on justice plunged into yet a new round of debates, this time to tackle the first of two, possibly three, "prejudicial...

YESTERDAY, the congressional tug-of-war for adherents both for and against the impeachment case against Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo gained five signatories to the side of the endorsers of the amended Lozano complaint. Today, however, it is the turn of...

WITH a vote of 54-24, including three abstentions, the House committee on justice upheld the motion of Rep. Edcel Lagman (1st district, Albay, Aksyon Demokratiko) to first tackle his set of "prejudicial questions" to resolve the issue as to which of the...

IN what is looming to be a historic vote, the House justice committee decides today on a procedural matter that has been the current cause of delay in the impeachment proceeding against Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The question to be settled: whether...

BLACK-and-white is the new yellow, at least for this particular segment of the middle class that gathered at the De La Salle Greenhills auditorium this afternoon to ponder the question: How do we solve a problem like Gloria? Years ago they wore...