Press Release

Statement on the passage of the New Agrarian Emancipation Act

Rep. Joey Sarte SalcedaPrincipal Author and Sponsor The New Agrarian Emancipation Act condones 58.125 billion pesos of debts benefiting 654,000 agrarian reform beneficiaries and involving a total of 1.18 million hectares of awarded lands. I have been fighting for this measure since my first term in Congress. I fought for it again during my time […]

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Salceda thanks PBBM for certificate of urgency for CDC bill

House Ways and Means Chair Joey Sarte Salceda (Albay, 2nd district) thanked President Marcos for issuing a certificate of urgency for Senate Bill No. 1869, which is the Senate version of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bill, which Salceda first filed in January 2020. Salceda first filed the bill as House Bill […]

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Salceda boosts Magna Carta for MSMEs; wants more opportunities, benefits for small and medium businesses

House Ways and Means Chair Joey Sarte Salceda (Albay, 2nd district) is pushing for the enactment of the Magna Carta for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises, as one of its principal authors. Salceda also supported increasing procurement opportunities and benefits for MSMEs during the first deliberation on the measure by the House Committee on MSMEs […]

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Salceda on Sara as DepEd Secretary: “Brings oomph to the education sector;” House tax chair lauds higher budget for GASTPE, full implementation of EO 174

House Ways and Means Chair Joey Sarte Salceda (Albay, 2nd district) lauded the improvements in the implementation of the Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education (GASTPE) program and Executive Order No. 174 s. 2022, on teacher career progression, saying that Vice President Sara Duterte, who heads the Department of Education, “brings oomph […]

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