Sen. Francis Escudero, chair of the Senate committee on environment and natural resources, said he was considering holding a Senate inquiry into the USS Guardian’s running aground and damaging the Tubbataha Reef.
The suggestion by a visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) official that text messages be taxed next is “skewed and unfeeling,” and is actually “foreign meddling,” said Sen. Francis Escudero, who vowed to block any bill on the matter.
By admitting that the country could not go to war with China, President Benigno Aquino III was just telling the truth, senators said Tuesday.
