Posts Tagged ‘impeachment

WITH delicadeza just so easily dispensed with, the fourth impeachment complaint against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was junked last week and goes to a plenary vote this Tuesday. But it is unlikely that enough votes will be garnered to overturn the House of...

CHARGES of cheating, bribery, graft and corruption and other crimes will continue to haunt President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo even beyond 2010 as her critics vowed to carry on the fight while Catholic bishops urged the citizenry to keep searching for the...

ONE by one, as if in a chorus line, allies of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the House of Representatives on Tuesday took turns undermining the fourth impeachment complaint filed against her, prompting pro-impeachment lawmakers to nearly walk out of...

November 25, 2008 · Posted in: Congress Watch, Governance, In the News

Congress on the dock

THE PCIJ recently added another award to its collection, winning the 2007 National Book Award for Journalism for its book "The Rulemakers: How the Wealthy and Well-born Dominate Congress." The recognition from the Manila Critics Circle and the National...

FORMER House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. appealed to his colleagues on Monday to “use (their) conscience” in deciding on the latest impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The Pangasinan lawmaker was trying to win the...