00:00 The Senate is trying to pass the 20 priority bills that are being helped by the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. before the end of the year.
00:09 In fact, some of these are the targets that will be passed next week.
00:14 The center of the news is from Daniel Manalestas.
00:18 On the Facebook page of Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri,
00:23 he thanked President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. for his cabinet and his fellow members of the Senate and House of Representatives for a productive Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council or LEDAC meeting.
00:35 He said that the 20 priority measures that are promised to be passed before the end of the year are already underway.
00:40 They have already sent two bills to the President for his signature, the Labor for the Country Act and the LGU Income Classification Act.
00:49 The Senator insisted that their work should be continued to pass all the priority measures.
00:55 Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva said that before the Senate breaks, their target is to pass the Public-Private Partnership Act,
01:03 the Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers and the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act.
01:09 The fight against agricultural smuggling is one of the goals of the Marcos Jr. administration.
01:16 Villanueva also said that aside from this, the list of priority bills of the administration was added,
01:22 such as the addition of the so-called Excise Tax on Single-Use Plastics and the amendment to the Government Procurement Reform Act and the Philippine Maritime Zones Act.
01:33 He said that the passing of the Philippine Maritime Zone Act is important.
01:36 Now, the Philippines is fighting for its right in the West Philippine Sea.
01:40 Daniel Manalestas, for the nation.
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