http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/ Sa lahat ng sumusuporta at naniniwala sa kakayahan ni Senator Chiz Escudero, sign na po tayo sa Escudero sa Palasyo Petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/chiz2010 Team Chiz! Multiply CONTACTS<br>You may send comments, criticisms, questions, and suggestions to:<br>Email Address: teamchiz@gmail.com<br><br>To send messages to Senator Francis Escudero<br>1. Type Chiz (space) (your message) and send to 2976<br>2. Or email at reachus@chizescudero.com Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:19:33 -0000 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:24:17 -0000 http://images.teamchiz01.multiply.com/logo http://teamchiz01.multiply.com 100 100 Senators Juan Ponce Enrile and Francis Escudero have criticized Morales for rewarding himself and his office staff, from directors to clerks, with a total of P537 million (P402 million in cash and P135 million in non-cash benefits) after the BOC revenue collections hit P198.2 billion in 2006, or P2.2 billion in excess of its target of P196 billion. Enrile and Escudero said that Morales, who got the highest single reward of P5.3 million, did not deserve the reward because the improved collections were achieved not from better performance but from advance VAT payments for 2007 of the oil companies. Morales is unperturbed by the criticism, insisting that the 2006 reward and the expected bonanza at the end of the year have a basis in the Lateral Attrition Law which provides for rewards and penalties for the BOC and the Bureau of Internal Revenue to encourage their staffs to boost revenue collections. http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/382/July_Chiz_News_Alert_33_Customs_to_Reward_Themselves_again Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:24:17 -0000 The Bureau of Customs system allowing the use of one certificate of payment (CP) for a batch of car importation has resulted the smuggling of between 8,000 to 13,000 vehicles into the country, Senator Francis Escudero said Wednesday. Escudero, chairman of the Senate committee on ways and means, gave this estimate of the number of vehicles that may be running around the country with questionable papers outside an ongoing Senate hearing on smuggling. http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/381/July_Chiz_News_Alert_32_Flawed_Customs_System Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:22:11 -0000 Most of the bills of Escudero were incorporated in reports passed by the Committees on Justice and on Ways and Means, which he heads. These two committees were also the most productive in the First Regular Session with 24 and nine committee reports, respectively. The output of these two committees is more than one-third of the 78 committee reports churned out by the 35 standing committees of the Senate in the First Session. Among the more noteworthy bills of Escudero are: Photo and Video Voyeurism, Decriminalization of Vagrancy, Anti-Torture Act, Private Property Rights, Amusement Tax Exemption, Anti-Child Pornography Act, Exemption of Minimum Wage Earners from Paying Income Tax, Good Conduct Time Allowance for Prisoners, Presentation of Suspects in Press Conference, and the Judiciary Retirement Act. http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/380/July_Chiz_News_Alert_31_Senator_Francis_Escudero_and_Jinggoy_Estrada_Top_Authors_of_Approved_Senate_Bills Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:12:01 -0000 He is probably the most requested politician during commencement exercises. Here he is at the Nueva Ecija http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/photos/album/69/Commencement_Exercise_Senator_Francis_Escudero_Attends_Graduation_at_Nueva_Ecija_University Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:49:23 -0000 He is probably the most requested politician during commencement exercises. Here he is at the Bulacan Polytechnic http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/photos/album/67/Commencement_Exercise_Senator_Francis_Escudero_Attends_the_Graduation_of_Bulacan_Polytechnic_College Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:18:34 -0000 Senator Francis Escudero graces an event hosted by the Private Hospitals Association of the http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/photos/album/66/Events_Senator_Francis_Escudero_with_the_Private_Hospitals_Association_of_the_Philippines Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:09:45 -0000 Senator Francis Escudero attends an affair of the Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies in the http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/photos/album/65/Events_Senator_Francis_Escudero_with_the_Association_of_Accredited_Advertising_Agencies Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:59:44 -0000 If you're looking for fun - an escape from high gas prices, high food prices - in these low times, then do yourself a favor and watch 'Mamma Mia!' Meryl Streep singing and dancing is worth the ticket. Throw in Irish hot export Pierce Brosnan, the 'spontaneous' Colin Firth, and the adventurous Stellan Skarsgard and your in for a good ride. Amanda Seyfried (Lily Kane of Veronica Mars series) who supported the once promising Lindsay Lohan in 'Mean Girls' acquited herself as an actress engaging the divine Streep in their scenes. Aside from multiple Oscar-nominee Streep, the real stars of the film are the nostalgic ABBA music and the scene-stealing duo of Christine Baranski and Julie Walters. Who can resist the finger-snapping appeal of 'Dancing Queen,' 'Does Your Mother Know,' and 'Super Trouper'? Nobody. Even the cynics have to move their limbs (Watch out for Streep's heart-breaking performance of 'The Winner Takes it all.' I never knew that the word 'heart-breaking' can be used... http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/reviews/item/20 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:08:15 -0000 Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero on Friday slammed Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes for acting like a virtual “spokesperson” of Petron, Shell and Chevron-Caltex instead of protecting the public interest in the face of the unabated increases in fuel pump prices. “What is saddening is that our own Secretary of the Department of Energy has sounded like a spokesperson for the giant oil companies. They speak the same things and they just echo each other’s thoughts,” said Escudero in an interview with http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/379/July_Chiz_News_Alert_30_Senator_Francis_Escudero_Thinks_Angelo_Reyes_Acting_as_Oil_Firm_Spokesperson Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:45:52 -0000 Watch the gorgeous and talented wife of Senator Francis Escudero performance in one of 'Aawitan Kita's show in Makati. Can anybody tell me the title of the http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/video/item/50/Christine_Escudero_Aawitan_Kita_Performance Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:32:26 -0000 Opposition senator Chiz Escudero today said, "there is no need to spy on the people to know what they feel during these hard times for their pain is palpable, and their discontent is evident”. This after the palace has included the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) in a super body that will monitor the food and energy situation in the country. http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/378/Official_Press_Release_84_ISAFP_Inclusion_in_Food_and_Energy_Superbody_Scored Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:17:24 -0000 Advances from corporate taxpayers may have nudged up the revenue haul of the Bureau of Customs in 2006 – and thus allowed its personnel to claim a half-a-billion-peso bonus under the Lateral Attrition Law, but it was government’s own tax payments which amplified the Custom’s P198.1 billion tax take that year. “The tipping point may have been provided by tax payments advanced by companies but the major push was given by the government, through the duties and taxes it paid for its own imports, mostly rice, therefore it is not covered by the lateral attrition law” Sen. Chiz Escudero today said. Of the BoC’s P198.1 billion collection in 2006, P20.6 billion came from the Tax Expenditure Fund (TEF), a “non-cash transaction that simply records in the books that duties arising from government imports have been settled,” he said http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/377/Official_Press_Release_83_Tax_Expenditure_Fund_Bloats_Customs_Collection Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:05:20 -0000 While motorists continue to pay the inevitable VAT at the pump, the rise in oil taxes has yet to reflect on Bureau of Customs collections, prompting opposition senator Chiz Escudero to suspect the much-vaunted VAT oil dividends “a mirage.” Escudero, who has long been espousing for the scrapping of the VAT on oil said there is a “disconnect” between a supposed windfall in oil VAT collection , on the one hand, and actual Customs collections , on the other. “If the expected hike in fuel tax collection has not materialized then where will government “squeeze its ‘katas ng VAT’ from which is reportedly being used to lubricate its rice and power subsidy program?” Escudero asked. http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/376/Official_Press_Release_82_VAT_Windfall_does_not_Appear_in_Revenues Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:03:17 -0000 The American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Inc. is a private, independent and non-profit association incorporated under Philippines laws in July 1920. It is affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. (COCUSA) and the Asia-Pacific Council of American Chambers (APCAC) It maintains close liaison with other foreign chambers in Manila and Philippine business groups: the Employers Confederation of the Philipppines (ECOP), Philippine Chamber of Commerce & Industry (PCCI), Philippine Association of Multinational Regional Headquarters (PAMURI), Makati Business Club (MBC), Management Association of the Philippines (MAP), Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX), and other trade and business organizations. It also networks in the U.S. with the Philippine-American Chamber of Commerce in New York, US-RP Business Committee, Asia Society, and the US-ASEAN Council. AmCham works closely with the American Embassy in Manila, particularly with the Foreign Com... http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/photos/album/64/Events_Senator_Francis_Escudero_Meets_with_the_American_Chamber_of_Commerce Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:52:47 -0000 Senator Francis Escudero leads oath-taking of Luisiana Laguna Barangay http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/photos/album/63/Senate_Scenes_Senator_Francis_Escudero_with_Luisiana_Laguna_Barangay_Officials Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:29:17 -0000 “I had it installed when gas was at P57 per liter just recently, around three weeks ago,” Escudero said of his little more than P70,000 investment in his 1997 Chevrolet Suburban that runs on a 5.2-liter, eight-cylinder engine. Escudero said that the SUV's consumption of an estimated 4.75 kilometers to the liter is the same with the LPG kit installed. “But the price of the fuel is 60 percent off,” Escudero said. He said that when he had the cost-saving device installed in his car, the price of gasoline was P57 per liter while LPG was P26 per liter. “Let's say the car uses up P5,000 worth of gasoline a week, that's P20,000 a month. With LPG at half the price, that's already P10,000 a month in savings,” Escudero said. http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/375/July_Chiz_News_Alert_29_Senator_Francis_Escuderos_Car_Runs_on_LPG Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:13:26 -0000 Sen. Francis Escudero criticized the intelligence unit’s inclusion in the super body that will monitor the local food and energy situation. Intelligence groups are best deployed against criminals who kidnap and rob people, not on supposed victims of government inaction who suffer because of the high prices of oil, rice and other basic goods, Escudero said. “There is no need to spy on the people to know what they feel during these hard times for their pain is palpable, and their discontent is evident,” he added. “A government that opts for the surveillance of people, instead of solutions to the heavy burden on our backs is either ignorant of our hardships or insensitive to it, or worse, http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/374/July_Chiz_News_Alert_28_Senator_Francis_Escudero_Criticizes_Controversial_ISAFP Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:10:28 -0000 He also supports the removal of the E-VAT on oil “because that is the clamor of the people.” “It is not our job to tell the people that they are wrong. It is our duty to articulate their sentiments,” he contended. He added that it is because of the people’s overwhelming sentiments that he favors the removal of E-VAT on oil. He said that he is firm in his stand against new taxes and against the existing E-VAT on oil. “They can remove me as chairman but they will have to contend with me on the floor,” he http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/373/July_Chiz_News_Alert_27_First_Year_of_Senator_Francis_Escudero_in_the_Senate Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:06:48 -0000 The Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights was the most productive among all 35 standing committees of the Upper Chamber in the recently concluded First Regular Session of the Fourteenth Congress. The committee, headed by Sen. Francis Escudero, came out with 24 reports, or almost one-third of the 78 produced by the First Regular Session. The Senate Committee on Ways and Means, also headed by Escudero, is the second-most productive committee with nine reports. http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/372/July_Chiz_News_Alert_26_Committees_of_Senator_Francis_Escudero_Most_Productive Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:02:01 -0000 Note: The article deals with Senator Francis Pangilinan's resentment of early 2010 pairings. But this one line below should stir shockwaves among potential candidates. Escudero said he would make a formal announcement only on October 10, 2009, when he turns 40. http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/371/July_Chiz_News_Alert_25_Formal_2010_Annoucement_of_Senator_Francis_Escudero Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:55:20 -0000 Without us knowing it the Congressman and his son Senator Francis 'Chiz' Escudero were regular patrons of our Law Students especially during their bar examinations wherein both father and son were regularly visiting our examinees and their supporters and even hosting dinners as a sign of support and camaraderie. These generous acts from our legislators are known to the students and are big boosts to our school since this is the first ever College of Law in the history of the province. Not only that, Sen. Chiz Escudero himself served as one of our earliest batch of professors when we started the College of Law. That time he was a young congressman for Sorsogon, a former University of the Philippines professor and acquired his M.A. in Law from Georgetown University in the United States. http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/370/Blog_37_Congressman_Sonny_Escudero_Visits_Aemilianum_College_of_Law Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:44:09 -0000 Senator Francis Escudero III na may isa lamang na http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/369/July_Chiz_News_Alert_24_Senate_Attendance_Record_-_Escudero_only_One_Absence Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:11:59 -0000 It is one of the first affairs that Senator Francis Escudero attended when he won a national http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/photos/album/62/Events_Senator_Francis_Escudero_at_the_Onofre_D_Corpuz_Forum Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:41:37 -0000 Romulo Neri and Tito Sotto got off to a bad start in their new http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/368/Video_Clip_23_Criticisms_Welcome_New_Arroyo_Appointees Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:33:06 -0000 In this sense, yes, a Chiz candidacy will be Obama-like – a generational challenge as well as a mark of a generational shift. By 2010 Chiz will only be a shade above 40 – definitely the youngest ever to be elected vice president (should he run for that post and win) and in that position the youngest to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. With his youth, people hope, will come the energy needed to help stir the pot, to challenge parts of the status quo that need challenging, to dare shake the tree of tradition that oftentimes imprisons our politics and our society. It will not be a naïve youth anyway, Chiz having been honed by nine years in the House of Representatives which saw him take the lead in many battles against an incumbent president. Of course in those battles some saw a streak of pragmatism and realpolitik that they felt was too much a hallmark of traditional politics in Chiz – but I cannot imagine how an idealist will ever survive without at one point or another having ... http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/links/item/367/July_Chiz_News_Alert_23_Chiz_is_It Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:48:21 -0000 I still remember when a PATTS faculty came to our school to discuss and promote their institution as an alternative for the usual choices for college courses. I almost signed up. This video is a clip of Senator Escudero's speech during this year's batch of graduates. Founded as a joint enterprise of Filipino and American pioneers in aviation, the Philippine Air Transport and Training Services (PATTS) started operations in 1969. Its primary aim was to establish a manufacturing and assembly plant for trainer aircrafts, which at the time of its founding was a new and pioneering objective as envisioned by its five founding directors. Its secondary aim was to put up an Aeronautical School to meet the domestic and international demands in the fields of aviation and air transportation industry. http://teamchiz01.multiply.com/video/item/49/Senator_Francis_Escudero_at_the_PATTS_Commencement_Exercis Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:39:08 -0000