Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III and Senator Panfilo Lacson, chair of the Senate Committee on Accounts, field questions to officials of the Senate Secretariat during the hearing on the proposed Senate Institute on Legislative Studies and Training Center (SILSTC), Tuesday, January 30, 2018. The hearing focused on Senate Resolution No. 287, introduced by Pimentel, which would establish the SILSTC as the “training arm of the Senate on local and national legislation, legislative governance, legislative research, and in inter-parliamentary and international relations.” (Photo by Albert Calvelo)