A clean state for House as 19th Congress begins

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The House of Representatives will have the imagery of a new beginning–a clean state of sorts–going for it when it finally starts the first regular session of the 19th Congress on Monday, July 25.

The main Philippine flag inside the House plenary hall

Presiding over the session will be the “old” House secretary general in Mark Llandro Mendoza. He was installed in his position by then-Speaker Lord Allan Velasco of the lone district of Marinduque during the previous 18th Congress. The new-look plenary hall now has an “elevated” main flooring that’s akin to the Banaue Rice Terraces, a new video and sound system, and health safeguards like an “ultraviolet germicidal irradiation system”.

 

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