Senate set to approve 4 admin priority measures

n By MARICEL V. CRUZ

THE Senate is expected to approve at least four key priority measures of the Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) days before the 19th Congress adjourns next week. Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri, in a statement, said the priority measures are the Trabaho Para sa Bayan Act, the Regional Specialty Centers Act, and the Maharlika Investment Fund Act, which has been certified as urgent by Malacañang.

Apart from the said priority bills, the twenty-four republics, we have to hear everyone’s perspectives out, toward the betterment of our measures. Thankfully, we have all developed a great working relationship with one another, and we have been able to give due time for everyone to carefully debate and deliberate on all the measures that go through our committees and the plenary,” the Senate President said. Congress is set to adjourn sine die on June 2, 2023.

Zubiri said that if four of the priority bills were signed into law, the First Regular Session would have produced seven

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