RESOLUTION
ENJOINING AND DIRECTING THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS, COMMITTEE ON BASIC EDUCATION AND CULTURE, AND THE COMMITTEE ON HIGHER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION TO JOINTLY CONDUCT AN INQUIRY IN AID OF LEGISLATION ON THE UNAUTHORIZED AND ILLEGAL ISSUANCE OF MEMORANDUM NO. 2022-0663 DATED AUGUST 9, 2022 BY THE KOMISYON SA WIKANG FILIPINO (KWF) BANNING FROM LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS FIVE BOOKS IN FILIPINO FOR BEING “SUBVERSIVE” AND “ANTI-GOVERNMENT”.
The original arrangement this morning was that because “Minority Leader” Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan was not yet ready to deliver his Counter SONA, I can proceed to deliver my Counter SONA this afternoon as I am already prepared to do so. But as the “Minority Leader” has decided to deliver his Counter SONA today, I was expecting that I would also be delivering my critique of President Marcos, Jr.’s State of the Nation Address after him.
Since by tradition, the authentic opposition’s Counter SONA is delivered the day after the President delivers his SONA, I have decided to furnish the media and the Plenary Support Service of the House for the record, a copy of my Counter SONA.
(Message delivered by Rep. Edcel C. Lagman on 27 October 2021 during the Department of Agriculture and PhilRice’s Seed Distribution for the 2022 Dry Season)
The great Black American educator and author Booker T. Washington once said that “No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as there is in writing a poem.” We should recognize and acknowledge that everyone plays an indispensable role in nation building – from farmers to Presidents – we all play a part and are all important.
Greetings to everyone.
When a young girl becomes a bride, its consequences will traverse her entire lifetime and its deleterious effects including poverty, lack of educational and employment opportunities, and ill-health, will be passed on to her children and even to her grandchildren.
I voted “yes” to House Bill No. 10261, which is identical to Senate Bill No. 2408, because I fully support the extension of the registration of voters beyond the COMELEC-fixed deadline of September 30, 2021. The extension is made more crucial and critical because the continuing registration of voters was stalled by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic even as R.A. No. 8189 on continuing registration of voters validly subsists.
