A HOUSE leader on Sunday lauded journalists and media personnel for taking part as frontliners in the fight against coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) by keeping the public informed on the latest developments about the pandemic.

SPEAKER Alan Peter Cayetano on Saturday joined calls for some nitizens to stop the condemnable act of discriminating coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) patients, frontliners, and returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

A House leader on Sunday welcomed government efforts to fast-track the Emergency Subsidy Program (ESP) by initially distributing the financial assistance to conditional cash transfer (CCT) beneficiaries.

THE chairman of the House committee on ways and means on Sunday said the choice on the proposed two-week enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) extension to defeat coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is between “losing a lot of lives and saving some money” and “protecting many lives and recover economic losses faster.”

HOUSE leaders on Sunday heaped praises on the leadership of the influential and well-respected Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) led by its Executive Minister, Brother Eduardo V. Manalo for allowing the conversion of its colossal Philippine Arena into a quarantine facility for coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) cases.

A PARTY-LIST congressman on Friday warned that coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic could kill the vegetable farming industry in the poor agricultural communities in the Cordillera region.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS companies led by Globe Telecom Inc. and Smart Communications Inc. on Friday were urged to extend their subscribers free load and data to contact their loved ones and access critical information and online services during coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic.

AN economist congressman on Friday sought a two-week extension of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Luzon as he reiterated his mass testing call for coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), saying a premature lifting is against science, economics, and history.

A HOUSE leader on Friday renewed his call for the government to advance the midyear bonus of its 1.6 million state personnel.

INSTEAD of giving them P500 daily allowance, a Metro Manila congressman on Friday proposed to the Department of Health (DOH) the permanent hiring of hundreds of doctors and nurses who have volunteered to help the government fight coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19).

A House leader on Friday said the Defeat Covid-19 Ad Hoc Committee of the House of Representatives said the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) could actually release right away the P5,000 to P8,000 subsidy this weekend to as many families possible on its Listahanan list of poor and low-income families plus other vulnerable sectors.

A CONGRESSMAN from Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) on Thursday expressed disgust over reports of repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are being denied accommodation and of local government units (LGUs) turning them away due to coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic.

THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) should arrest those guilty of profiteering, hoarding and overpricing of medical supplies to address shortages, especially the personal protective equipment (PPE) instead of wasting its time and resources to investigate Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto.

THE leadership of the House of Representatives on Thursday said it is now working to unmask the identities behind a destructive Twitter account using the official seal of the institution as its profile photo to deliberately sow “fear, panic and confusion” at the height of government’s campaign against coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19).

A HOUSE leader on Thursday said the government’s anti-coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) campaign should extend at least P20 billion economic relief to at least almost half a million returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and subject them to mandatory testing to prevent possible second wave of infections.