The new Senate leadership is planning to ask Malacañang for a special session for the Commission on Appointments.

The Blue Ribbon Committee, led by the Cayetano bloc, proceeded without a Senate secretary or stenographers present.

Some Congress members called it a "pro-dynasty bill."

The bloc opposing Alan Peter Cayetano invoked Avelino v. Cuenco, arguing that senators beyond the chamber’s coercive reach should not be counted in quorum.

Sens. Robin Padilla and Pia Cayetano forced the entry of 18 Marines into the Senate building, prompting a brief altercation on Thursday, June 4.

The Senate will likely have no elected president until late July unless President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. calls a special session, Sen. Tito Sotto III said Wednesday, June 3.

The Visayas power problem may not be a short summer squeeze.

The Philippines lost its bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, June 3, defeated by Kyrgyzstan after four rounds of voting in the General Assembly. 

The estranged brother of Senate President Alan Cayetano has been tasked to manage the government’s primary television station as some senators and Malacañang trade barbs over political rifts that derailed the work in the chamber.

Most Filipinos support expanded naval presence, continued diplomacy and the modernization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines  as ways to address conflict in the West Philippine Sea, a survey conducted by the OCTA Research group showed.