The absence of the majority during Monday’s session, the Senate minority bloc said, was a boycott, not a call for Senate independence.

The Senate held no session on Monday after members of the majority skipped the proceedings after Sen. Jinggoy Estrada was arrested in connection with the plunder case he is facing…

Members of the minority in the Senate on Monday rejected Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano's call to let the Senate "fall silent" after Sen. Jinggoy Estrada's arrest on plunder…

The absence of the majority during Monday’s session, the Senate minority bloc said, was a boycott, not a call for Senate independence.