Statement of Senate President Franklin M. Drilon
on the latest Pulse Asia Survey

We realize and accept that the controversies that hounded Congress last year cost us the trust and approval of our people. We have therefore committed ourselves to tedious but necessary actions that will enable us to regain public trust and approval.

We have just entered a new year, but I am confident to say that with the reforms we have been undertaking and with the number of important pieces of legislation that the Senate will be working on this year, we will leave year 2014 with the trust and confidence of our people in the institution successfully restored.

We take the result of the latest Pulse Asia survey as a challenge to improve our performance. We at the Senate are even more inspired and invigorated to heed the people's call for genuine and lasting reforms and in passing legislation that will better serve the interests of the Filipino people, sustain economic growth, enhance government transparency, and eliminate corruption.