Despite her health condition, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago has emerged with the highest number of filed bills and resolutions in the Senate after the second regular session of the 16th Congress.
Santiago, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, has filed a total of 1,324 bills and resolutions as the Senate adjourned sine die on June 11, according to a document from the Senate bills and resolutions index service.
She was followed by Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada with 642 bills and resolutions and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV with 344. Reckoning bills and resolutions separately, Santiago still topped all her colleagues with 671 bills and 629 resolutions.
“Only my body is sick, not my brain. I am not yet physically fit to attend plenary sessions. However, I have managed to discharge my duties as chair of certain Senate committees and I continue to file bills and resolutions on a weekly basis.” she said.
Santiago is set to end her Senate stint. She was senator from 1995 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2010. She was re-elected in 2010 and is limited by law to run for another term in 2016.
MANILA BULLETIN
