Senators JV Ejercito and Mark Villar on Tuesday were named Senate deputy majority leaders in the 19th Congress.
This, after senators elected the two as vice chairpersons of the Committee on Rules during the plenary session.
Senate majority leader Joel Villanueva said the Committee on Rules will conduct a hearing first before electing the chairpersons of some committees as there is a "clamor" among his colleagues to break the Basic Education, and Arts and Culture, as well as the Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resource Development into four separate panels.
The Senate majority leader admitted that the membership in these two constitutional bodies is the "perennial problem" of the leadership during the opening of every Congress as they need to consider the political affiliations of each senator.
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