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LAGMAN FILES BILL MANDATING TAX EDUCATION AND COMPLIANCE
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Press Statements
Rep. Edcel C. Lagman filed on June 30, 2022 House Bill No. 76 “mandating the teaching of tax literacy, consciousness and responsibility in intermediate, secondary, technical-vocational, and tertiary education.”
Liberating Sen. Leila de Lima from an odious incarceration soon after President-elect Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. assumes office is the litmus test of his sense of justice and adherence to the rule of law.
LAGMAN URGES NEW ADMINISTRATION TO PRIORITIZE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Saturday, June 11, 2022
Press Statements
Albay Rep. Edcel C. Lagman called on the incoming administration to prioritize reproductive health in the wake of the report of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) that 51% of pregnancies in...
Unless the new administration can find or create fresh funds
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Press Statements
Unless the new administration can find or create fresh funds, the “stimulus package” monikered as Bayan Bangon Muli (BBM) will be mere sloganeering and simply a change in nomenclature from the...
I am urging the incoming administration not to perpetuate the stratagem of the majority leadership of anointing a Minority Leader in the House of Representatives as an adjunct of the majority...
POLL surveys have been ubiquitous features in the electoral landscape after the first was introduced during the 1824 US presidential race among Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William Crawford,...
LAGMAN OFFERS P200K FOR ARREST OF BRGY. CHAIR NARDING BISA KILLER
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Press Statements
Rep. Edcel C. Lagman has committed P200,000.00 for genuine information leading to the apprehension and prosecution of the assailant and/or mastermind responsible for the killing of Barangay Chairman...
IT is almost imponderable how the radars of the electoral survey outfits have missed the incessant outpouring of support for Vice President Leni Robredo’s presidential run. It appears that most of...
Video message of Cong. Lagman on the 35th Founding Anniversary of the DSWP
Wednesday, March 09, 2022
Messages
Watch Cong. Edcel Lagman's video message to the Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines (DSWP) as they celebrate this year, its 35th founding anniversary.
AN Armenian adage says “Show me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are.” This ancient aphorism finds truism in politics, like in the committed sectors and outstanding personalities who...
Panguluhan ni Marcos Jr.: Kataksilan sa EDSA People Power Revolution
Friday, February 25, 2022
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Mulang Pebrero 22 hangga’t 25, 1986, sa isang pag-aalsang umugong sa buong mundo at naging modelo ng mapayapang pagtutumba ng mga rehimeng mapanupil, milyun-milyong Pilipinong nanggaling sa...
Marcos Jr. ‘presidency’: a betrayal of EDSA People Power Revolution
Thursday, February 24, 2022
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IN a peaceful upheaval which resonated across the globe and became the model for nonviolent popular change of repressive regimes, millions of Filipinos from all walks of life 36 years ago massed...
Senator Leila De Lima’s incarceration for five years on February 24, 2022 appears to be the longest vengeful and unwarranted detention of a fearless critic of President Rodrigo Duterte.
EIGHTY-ONE days from today, on May 9, 2022, millions of enfranchised Filipinos will troop to the polls to elect their leaders and representatives from the president to the last municipal councilor....
THERE are serious apprehensions and grave trepidations from responsible and reputable institutions and personalities on the perils of a Ferdinand Marcos Jr. presidency. Expressing these grim...
FERDINAND Marcos Jr. balked at participating in an interview featuring five leading presidential candidates by multi-awarded broadcast journalist Jessica Soho on the contrived belief that Soho is...
THE travails of unvaccinated Novak Djokovic, the world's number one tennis star, in an unsuccessful attempt to stay in Melbourne to defend his title at the Australian Open this January, has brought...
THE exhilarating news is that the increase in our population growth rate (PGR) in 2021 is the lowest in 75 years at 0.3 percent since the 1945-1946 period. The increase is minimal at 324,000 new...
Re: Approval on Third Reading of Human Rights Defenders bill
Monday, January 17, 2022
Press Release
For two consecutive Congresses, the 17th and the current 18th, the House of Representatives has passed on third and final reading the bill protecting human rights defenders (HRDs). Albay Rep. Edcel...
(Last of two parts) FROM the deceptive verbiage and off-tangent jurisprudential citations of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in his memorandum, the following additional arguments are contrived in his defense:
An important sequel to the reproductive health law is the recent enactment of R.A. No. 11596 criminalizing the practice of child marriage and the cohabitation of an adult with a child outside of...
(First of two installments) THE defense presented by Ferdinand Marcos Jr. before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) have been enfeebled by his admission in his answer and memorandum of his final...
2022 faces an improvident and unconstitutional legislation
Thursday, December 30, 2021
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AS we usher in 2022, the country faces an improvident and an unconstitutional legislation, which is going through a bicameral conference committee, the final stage of the legislative process.
How can 24 days detention without judicial warrant be constitutional?
Thursday, December 23, 2021
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THE practice by the Supreme Court of releasing a cursory media advisory on the bare results of its adjudication of high-profile cases, like the challenged Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 (ATA) or...
Petition against BBM warrants ‘judgment on the pleadings’
Thursday, December 16, 2021
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ONE of the least invoked rules which expedites the adjudication of litigations is “judgment on the pleadings”. Section 1 of Rule 19 of the Rules of Court provides: “Where an answer fails to tender...