00:00The House Kita Committee took on the issues of bringing down
00:04rise prizes and poll-related issues and over-registration of voters,
00:10even as the House Speaker welcomed his counterpart and his entourage of Malaysian lawmakers and then
00:17later inaugurated a new wing of the Batasan Complex to honor a former and distinguished
00:23House Speaker. The full story from our Mela Lesmora.
00:28Several lawmakers are urging the National Price Coordinating Council to expedite the
00:34declaration of food security emergency in the country. During the fifth hearing of the House
00:39Kinta Committee, House Appropriations Panel Acting Chair Stella Kimbo questioned why the
00:44NPCC has not yet issued a resolution on the matter. This step is crucial to bringing affordable NFA
00:51rice to the market. For its part, the Department of Trade and Industry, which is part of the NPCC,
00:56assured the resolution's expected release in the coming days.
01:09Meanwhile, as the 2025 midterm elections drew near, the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral
01:14Reforms continued their discussions on vital poll-related resolutions filed before them.
01:20One example is in Cagayan de Oro City, where there was allegedly a significant
01:24surge in the number of newly registered voters in one barangay.
01:29Here in Barangay Carmen, there are 21,000 new registrants in one barangay only.
01:36This number is statistically improbable and the congressmen are saying here in the
01:44Committee on Suffrage that the increase is disturbing.
01:50The House leadership warmly welcomed Malaysian House Speaker Tan Sri Dato Johari bin Abdul,
01:55along with other officials of the Malaysian Parliament, during their visit to the Batasang
02:00Pambansang. According to House Speaker Martin Romaldes, the good inter-parliamentary relations
02:06between the Philippines and Malaysia is a significant development for both countries.
02:10With this, the lower house also presented a resolution expressing sincere appreciation
02:16to the Malaysian delegation. We want to celebrate Philippine-Malaysian relations.
02:23The relationship, I know, keeps getting stronger year by year.
02:27Prior to this, Romaldes also met former House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. during the inauguration
02:33of a new museum and building at the Batasan Complex, which was named after the former
02:38House leader. From PTV, Melalas Moras, Balitang Pambansang.
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