The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is in charge of flood control on the lower Mississippi River (1928 Flood Control Act ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president and Congress have begun looking into possibly massive corruption in flood control projects that may implicate public works officials and engineers, ...
The bicameral conference committee’s approved, reconciled version of the P6.793 trillion national budget for 2026 has ...
MANILA, Philippines — Flood control projects are being used as patronage tools for political gain over public safety and making it easy to misuse budgets meant for disaster prevention, former ...
Benguet Rep. Eric Yap could be the first sitting congressman to be arrested in connection with questionable flood control ...
Hoping to regain public trust after the massive flood control corruption scandal, Congress kicked off its first-ever livestreamed bicameral conference committee (bicam) on the national budget on ...
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The first step to a political reboot: Abolish Congress

In a report written in the context of the flood control scandal, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies made a striking conclusion: the country’s bicameral system has become so dysfunctional ...