With members of the Social Security System (SSS) and Government Social Insurance System(GSIS), Assistant Minority Leader and Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza together with Gabriela Rep. Luz Ilagan and Anakpawis Rep.Rafael Mariano today filed a resolution for the House of Representatives to investigate the implications to the benefits of private sector workers of SSS President Romulo Neri’s move to commit the …

Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano said that allotting some P30B from Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and Social Security System (SSS) funds to the national government’s economic resiliency package is against the interests of GSIS and SSS members.
“SSS President Romulo Neri and GSIS President Winston Garcia have no right to commit the security fund of public and private sector workers to …

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Nene” Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today said “it may be difficult but
not impossible” to convince the Supreme Court to
reverse its ruling on the Neri case which he branded
as a “grave mistake.”
Pimentel said the high court’s ruling on the case was
based on a number of erroneous premises as he
expressed the hope that the tribunal’s members who
ruled in favor …

We are greatly disappointed with the Supreme Court decision upholding executive privilege in the testimony of ChEd chair Romulo Neri.
The sheer number of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s appointees in the High Court has no doubt influenced this troubling decision. From attempting to kidnap witness Jun Lozada to packing the High Court with appointees based on loyalty and not on integrity, this …

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) is utterly disappointed with the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the principle of executive privilege in relation to Romulo Neri’s conversations with the president on the bribe-tainted NBN-ZTE deal.
The SC decision favors the stonewalling tactics of the Arroyo regime and deprives the public a measure of transparency and accountability in government.
We commend the SC justices led …

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Nene” Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today dared President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo to stop preventing Secretary Romulo
Neri from testifying anew at the Senate inquiry into
the national broadband controversy and heed the call
of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines
for transparency to curb graft in government.
Pimentel said Neri’s continued refusal to return to
the Senate to complete his testimony is working to …

Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur C. Ocampo today said that Commission on Higher Education Chair Romulo Neri’s declaration of a “web of corruption” in government shows that crony capitalism under President Macapagal-Arroyo has become worse since the time of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Ocampo issued the statement after Rodolfo Lozada Jr. in his continuing testimony before the Senate …

What Neri Is Afraid to Tell the Public