Senate to move to Fort Bonifacio in Taguig by 2021 — Lacson [Manila Bulletin]

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From the Manila Bulletin: Senator Panfilo Lacson said the Senate may move to its new home in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City by January 2021.

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Updating colleagues on the Senate relocation
At a Glance: The process of the Senate’s relocation
Sponsorship speech on the Senate’s relocation

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Lacson upbeat about enactment of national ID system [Manila Bulletin]

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From the Manila Bulletin: Senator Panfilo Lacson is upbeat about the enactment of a national identification system once Congress resumes in May.

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Sponsorship Speech for the National ID system bill
At a Glance: The Philippine ID System (National ID)

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‘Bloated’ ROW appropriation in proposed 2018 DPWH budget is graft-laden – Lacson [Manila Bulletin]

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From the Manila Bulletin: Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson revealed that the ‘’bloated’’ right of way (ROW) appropriation amounting to P52 billion and another P86 billion at the proposed 2018 budget of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is graft-laden.

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Lacson says PNP needs the will to end ‘jueteng’ [Manila Bulletin]

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From Manila Bulletin: Lacson estimated that the daily take from jueteng operations, usually in the Luzon area, reaches P267 million a day or about a potential P96 billion a year.

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Editorial: ‘Pork’ issue raised anew in search for SUC funds [Manila Bulletin]

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From Manila Bulletin: Senator Lacson never accepted his own allotment – it was P200 million for senators and P70 million for congressman – in the old days of PDAF. Some of his colleagues in Congress today may not be ready to carry on without their pork in its new guise and may insist on the “SOP” devised by DBM. Then they must find, somewhere else in the bowels of the appropriation bill, the P25 billion needed for the new program of free college education.

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