Senator Edgardo J. Angara speaks before the Visayas Renewable Energy Congress about promoting clean development through renewable energy (RE) as the best way to cushion oil crisis. Angara authored the Renewable Energy Act of 2008, which was recently signed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo into law.

Independent Senator Richard J. Gordon takes a hearty laugh as a Korean vendor demonstrates an automated voting machine displayed at the first-ever Election Technology Conference and Vendor Exhibition held recently at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Makati City. During his speech at the opening of the three-day event, Gordon, author of the Amended Automated Elections Law, called on the government to fix the electoral process by implementing the law and have fully automated presidential elections in 2010....

Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada takes oath as Senate President Pro Tempore anew, after he manifested on the plenary his resignation out of delicadeza, been nominated again by Sen. Manuel Roxas and chosen once more by his colleagues to assume the position. Administering the oath is Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.