Press Release
July 27, 2016
Chairmanships for 21 Senate committees ok'd
The Senate today approved the chairmanships and organization of 21 Senate committees during today's plenary session.
The announcement of the committee chairmanships was made a day after the 17th Congress opened its First Regular Session.
With Senate President Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III presiding over the session, Senate Majority Leader Tito Sotto III moved for the election of the chairpersons of the committees listed below:
Senate Committee |
Chair |
Vice Chair/s |
Constitutional
Amendments |
Sen.Frankin Drilon |
Sens. Leila de Lima, Francis Pangilinan |
Rules |
Sen. Tito Sotto |
Sen. Gringo Honasan |
Public Order and
Dangerous Drugs |
Sen. Panfilo Lacson |
|
Education |
Sen. Bam Aquino |
Sens. Sonny Angara, Win Gatchalian, Joel
Villanueva |
Tourism |
Sen. Nancy Binay |
Sen. JV Ejercito |
Public Services |
Sen. Grace Poe |
Sen. JV Ejercito |
Agriculture |
Sen. Francis
Pangilinan |
Sen. Cynthia Villar |
Finance |
Sen. Loren Legarda |
Sens. Sonny Angara, Bam Aquino, Cynthia
Villar |
Ways and Means |
Sen. Sonny Angara
|
Sens. Loren Legarda, Joel Villanueva, Bam
Aquino |
Environment and Natural
Resources |
Sen. Cynthia Villar
|
Sen. Loren Legarda |
Public Works |
Sen. Manny Pacquiao
|
Sen. JV Ejercito |
Urban Planning, Housing
and Resettlement |
Sen. JV Ejercito |
Sen. Manny Pacquiao |
Justice and Human
Rights |
Sen. Leila de Lima |
Sen. Francis Pangilinan |
National Defense and
Security |
Sen. Gringo Honasan |
Sens. Panfilo Lacson, Loren Legarda, Sonny
Trillanes |
Energy |
Sen. Win Gatchalian
|
Sens. Nancy Binay, Loren Legarda |
Labor, Employment and
Human Resource Development |
Sen. Joel Villanueva
|
Sen. Sonny Angara |
Civil Service,
Government Reorganization and Professional Regulation |
Sen. Sonny Trillanes
|
Sen. Chiz Escudero |
Trade, Commerce and
Entrepreneurship |
Sen. Migz Zubiri |
|
Health and Demography
|
Sen. Risa Hontiveros
|
Sen. Gringo Honasan |
Social Justice, Welfare
and Rural Development |
Sen. Cynthia Villar
|
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Accountability of
Public Officers and Investigations (Blue Ribbon) |
Sen. Richard Gordon
|
Sen. Sonny Angara |
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Sotto said that under the Senate Rules, the Senate President Pro-Tempore, Majority Leader and Minority Leader are ex-officio members of all standing Senate committees.
"The vice chairmen who were not named may be designated by their chairmen during the committees' organizational meetings," he said.
He said that the chairpersons for the other Senate committees will be elected on Monday, August 1, 2016 due to an emergency meeting called by the National Security Council where all the officers of the Senate are asked by President Rodrigo Duterte to attend."
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