Tuesday, 26 February 2019

Daily Tribune

Villar still rises; Jinggoy hopeful

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An advocate of the agriculture anil
€nyironment sectors, Sen. Cynthia Villar or
"Mrs. Hanapbuhay," continues to stand by her
motto of owholehearted public seryice' by
pushing legislation most beneficial to those
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less than the President She fought for the allocation

edged that the Villar of Plo bilion &nnually for
le - Senator Villar Filipino farrners to &ssist them
d her husband former r4 Bovernrnent's nodernization
program.
President Manny
- were among the first i
Otlrerlarnshe coau,lrorcd/cosponsored
were RA 10968 (Philippine Qualification
Fiamework Act of 201?); RA 11039
(Expanded Anti-Red Tape Act of 2017);
B"A 11036 (Balik Scientist Act); RA U037
paga I (Masustansyang Pagkain para sa Batang
lower classes of society. P{ipino Act); RA 11040 (Lapu-Lapu Day);
RA 11063 (Anti-Hazins Act)i RA 11056
u s as crBrperson
:Vi.llar proved this chairperson ol
of (4hilipFi4e Identificaiion System Act
thF Senate Commiflees on Agriculture
arld Food and on Environrient and oi zots;; ne 11057 (Personal Property
Nrtural Resources - sponsoring 4Z S+curily Act); RA 11106 (Filipino Sign
mi:asrrres which wer" uo.ntu"Uy anu'.t.a Lfnguage Act); RA 1l 148 (Healthy Nanay
into laws. a$d Bulilit Act); RA 11166 (Philippine
lForernost of these laws was the
HfV andAlB{hPol!9y.Act); and RA I}t€4, -
rTently €nacted Rice Tariffication Law, ri;hich ltitregsed the monthly pension of
oC Republic Acr (RA) lt2o3, that s_dnior veterans,
was
dqsjgned to address the unstable supply ; She also co-authored four Senate
add pdce of rice. b$ls already approved by the President
iShe fought for a{d tfuee other measures passed by the
the allocation of SQnate and the llouse of Representatives.
Pl0 billion annually for Filipino
Iarmers t0 assist them in government,s S[e principally authored two other bills
mpdernization program. aiproved by bgth chambers.
. She also sponsored nA 1096g or the ' Villariis.dli.o.kno$n f0{ J49 J+mity's*
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EFe Iffigation Service t0 Small Farmers
Ldw;.RA 10659 or the Sugar Industry
Dfvelopment Act; and RA iogt6 or the
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Fdrm Tourism Development Act, laws
wNch were beneficial to farmers.
lcrowir ally of president Duterte,
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Villar co-authored/co-sponsored 68
leFislations, including the Malacaftang-
bdcked RA 10963 or the lax Reform for
Afceleration and Inclusion (IRAINf law;
RA 10929 or the Ftee Inteinet Access
id Places r"*;l"Jiielodi
ir{ Public ptaces law; and RA l098l or
the Universal Access l.o Qualiry ".
Te iary
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Villar still rises; Jinggoy hopeful
'Sipag at Tyaga" foundaJion trhat
provides liyelihood training to thousa ds
of people, viho, instead of iust
relying on goYemment dole outs,
are encouraged to work and eam,
With her passion for farming,
Vitlar has been an active
supporter of farm cooperatives
throughout the country, proYiding
haining and other assistance to help
the agdculture workeB become more
productive.
In recent campeign sorties,
Estrada claimed to have ffled
about 600 bills and resolutions
&s a senEtor,
No less than the hesident aclmowledged
that the villar couple - S€nator Vilar and
her husband fomer Senat€ Presid€nt ltanny
\4llar -'werc among the first to support his
presidentia,l candidary in 2016.
0nly yesterday, Senator Villar was
introduced by Davao City Mayor Sara
Duterte as the "top bet' ofthe Hugpong
ng Pagbabago in the upcoming May
elections.
Forrner Sen, Jinggoy{str&de
StiU facing plunder charges for
allegedly pocketing hundreds of millions
of his Priority Development Assistance
Fund (PDAF') as a sitting senator, former
Sen. Jinggoy Estrada is seeking a return
in the Senate in the coming 13 May
midterm elections.
As an incumbent senator, Estrada
was accused of amassing Pl8B million
PDAF or "pork barrel fund"
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bogus non-goyernment organizations of
detained Janet Lim-Napoles.
IIe is curently on bail for the plunder
charge and 16 counts of graft cases.
He was arrested in June 2014
and was allowed temporarY
liberty September 20U,
The former actor denied pocketing
any govemment fund.
Estrada is a son of convicted
plunderer former President and now
Manila Mayor Joseph Sstrada. The
eld€r Estrada was jailed for six years
by former President Gloria Macapagal-
Arroyo, who also granted the former
leader pardon in 2007.
Recently, President Duterte, who
hates couuption, dropped the younger
Estrada from his roster of senatorial
candidates.
In recent campaign sorties, Estrada
claimed to have filed about 600 bills and
resolutions &s a senator.
As a member of the 16th Congress,
the Senate website credited Estrada for
289 bills and resolutions - prioritizing
improvement and strengthening of
policies affecting the vi'orkforce and
bverseas foreign workers, empowering
our local government units, protecting
and preserving freedom of expression
and assembly and the promotion of
youth welfare.
Estrada served as chairman of
the Senate Committee on Labor,
Employment and lluman Resources.
As such, he had active engagements on
the study and deliberations of measures
relating to labor; human resources
development; and maintenance of
industrial peace.
also coa.uthored four
bills already approved
by the President and three
other me&sures passed by
the Senate and the House of
:atives. She prlncipally
two other bills
by both chambers.
IIe also worked for the promotion of
employer-empl0yee cooperation; labor
education, standards and sta.tistics;
0Banizaiion of the labor maxket including
recruitment, training and placenient of
workers and e)Eorts of human rcsouces;
foreign workeE in the Philippines; promdion
and development of worken' orgalization,
as weU as employmenfintensive iechnologr.