Senator Pia on the 30th SEA Games: Just like a champion is not made overnight, we will persevere and build a nation of champions.
Following President Duterte’s directive to restrict the use of e-cigarettes, Senator Pia Cayetano says her job continues to use taxation as a tool to protect citizens and raise funds for health.
To tax or ban e-cigarettes? Senator Cayetano says she will wait for the President’s EO banning e-cigs. Until then, it is her job to see the bill taxing e-cigs through.
“A vote for Sin Tax is a vote for our people’s health!” – Senator Pia S. Cayetano to fellow senators, following the President’s certification of SB 1074 as urgent
“What we want to achieve is [to significantly raise alcohol prices] so that these are not so accessible to the most vulnerable: the children and youth.”
“I am ready and I will make myself available every day in my effort to get this bill approved as soon as possible.”
If we want taxation to be part of a comprehensive package, then it should be a meaningful kind of taxation. Not the kind of taxation na, “sige na para lang masabing meron.”
Honorable Nene Pimentel was great in the big ways and marvelous in the small ways that made him human and beloved to those of us whose lives he touched.
On World Sight Day, Senator Pia Cayetano stressed the need to protect the eyesight of all Filipinos – from young children to senior citizens.
Senator Pia S. Cayetano has vowed to increase from P1.5 billion to P15 billion the funding allocation for the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Last Mile Schools (LMS) Program in next year’s proposed P4.1-trillion national government budget. Cayetano, the Senate Finance Committee vice chair, said the tenfold increase will benefit 830 Last Mile Schools located in…
Senator Pia S. Cayetano today said raising the compensation of teachers is the best affirmation of government’s high regard for the country’s educators and their contributions to nation-building. The senator issued the statement in time for National Teachers’ Day, which is being observed on October 5 (Saturday). A staunch education advocate, Cayetano authored Senate Bill…
Amid rising concerns in many countries about the health risks of electronic cigarettes and vapes, Senator Pia S. Cayetano reiterated that Congress has the jurisdiction to impose higher taxes on these products as a means to regulate their use. The chairperson of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, Cayetano made the assertion at…