Salceda asks DTI to craft response to semiconductor shortages, 280 billion USD subsidy law passed by US Congress; House tax chair asks PBBM government to “future-proof” country’s top export industry, protect 300k jobs in electronics export sector
Salceda challenges Senate: Take up disaster agency without waiting for the House; Tax panel chair says he is “optimistic” about chances of enacting disaster agency law with Zubiri-led Senate
Salceda says Malacanang assured him of Bicol Railway completion; House tax panel says rail will be backbone of “Bicol-Waray-Southern Tagalog” economic axis
Salceda praises PBBM SONA which showed President as “technocrat-in-chief;” House tax chair says panel ready to take up Marcos agenda “on day one of nomination”
“New goals, new friends, new projects:” Salceda says PBBM’s first SONA best time to signal foreign policy doctrine of “national interest, global cooperation;” Marcos Jr. “may have to make deals” with “non-traditional partners” such as Russia, Arab nations, India
Salceda elated by De Vera reappointment to CHED; House tax chair says challenge is now to follow PBBM directive to make education “skills-based” following “German model”
