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These are the members of the 15th Congress of the Philippines.The 15th Congress convened on July 26, 2010, and adjourned on June 6, 2013. Senators elected on the 2007 Senate election and senators elected on the 2010 Senate election comprise the Senate while representatives elected on the 2010 House of Representatives election comprise the House of Representatives.
The House of Representatives of the Philippines is the lower house of Congress. The House of Representatives has existed from 1945 to 1972, and since 1987. Whenever a bicameral system is used, a lower house has existed under the name of the Philippine Assembly from 1907 to 1934.
In district elections, 229 single-member districts elect one member of the House of Representatives. The candidate with the highest number of votes wins that district's seat. In the party-list election, parties will dispute 57 seats. In all, the 15th Congress will have 286 members, with 144 votes being the majority.
Pages in category "Senators of the 15th Congress of the Philippines" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Jose Ragandap Ping-ay (April 13, 1950 – September 18, 2020) was a Filipino politician who was Congressman in the 14th and 15th Congress as Partylist Representative of Coop-NATCCO. He served as Vice Mayor of his hometown Santa Cruz and was a Sangguniang Panlalawigan Member (Provincial Legislature) of the province of Ilocos Sur.
This is a complete list of past and present members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines whose last names begin with the letter S.. This list also includes members of the Philippine Assembly (1907–1916), the Commonwealth National Assembly (1935–1941), the Second Republic National Assembly (1943–1944) and the Batasang Pambansa (1978–1986).
The Congress of the Philippines (Filipino: Kongreso ng Pilipinas) is the legislature of the national government of the Philippines. It is bicameral, composed of an upper body, the Senate, and a lower body, the House of Representatives, [3] although colloquially, the term "Congress" commonly refers to just the latter.
He was elected Senate Minority Leader for the 15th Congress in 2010. He was re-elected to the Senate in 2013 , running under the Team PNoy administration coalition. At the start of the 16th Congress in 2013, Cayetano was elected as the new Senate Majority Floor Leader and was likewise appointed to chair the Senate Committee on Rules.