{"id":138057,"date":"2017-12-11T02:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T07:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138057"},"modified":"2017-12-11T02:22:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T07:22:44","slug":"congress-may-hold-joint-session-on-martial-law-extension-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/11\/congress-may-hold-joint-session-on-martial-law-extension-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress may hold joint session on martial law extension this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_122775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122775\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21271347_10154586568252271_7376679326560282394_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122775\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21271347_10154586568252271_7376679326560282394_n.jpg\" alt=\"The House of Representatives and Senate may likely hold a joint session this week to deliberate on the extension of martial law in Mindanao before they go into a congressional recess, Majority Leader Rodolfo Fari\u00f1as said on Monday. (Photo: House of Representatives of the Philippines\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21271347_10154586568252271_7376679326560282394_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21271347_10154586568252271_7376679326560282394_n-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21271347_10154586568252271_7376679326560282394_n-768x419.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The House of Representatives and Senate may likely hold a joint session this week to deliberate on the extension of martial law in Mindanao before they go into a congressional recess, Majority Leader Rodolfo Fari\u00f1as said on Monday. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HouseofRepsPH\/photos\/a.10150690050162271.387002.183015742270\/10154586568252271\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HouseofRepsPH\/\">House of Representatives of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The House of Representatives and Senate may likely hold a joint session this week to deliberate on the extension of martial law in Mindanao before they go into a congressional recess, Majority Leader Rodolfo Fari\u00f1as said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our session officially ends on Friday, December 15; hence, we may have a joint session on Thursday or Friday as part of the 2nd Regular Session, without a need of a special session,&#8221; Fari\u00f1as told reporters in a text message.<\/p>\n<p>Congress will adjourn on December 15 for its Christmas break and will resume on January 14, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte declared the entire Mindanao under martial law on May 23, 2017 after IS-inspired terrorists laid siege in Marawi City.<\/p>\n<p>Congress, in a special joint session, granted the extension of martial law until December 31 on President Duterte&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Lorenzana announced the end of the five-month-long conflict between government forces and Maute terrorists in Marawi City following the death of top terrorist leaders Omar Maute and Isnilon Hapilon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The House of Representatives and Senate may likely hold a joint session this week to deliberate on the extension &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":122775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[11118,38219,36655],"class_list":["post-138057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-joint-session","tag-martial-law-extension","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}