The SPEAKER (10:22): On behalf of the House, I welcome as guests the President of the Senate and honourable senators to this sitting of the House of Representatives to hear an address by His Excellency Ferdinand R Marcos Jr, President of the Republic of the Philippines. His Excellency Ferdinand R Marcos Jr having been announced and escorted into the chamber— The SPEAKER: Mr President, I welcome you to the House of Representatives chamber. Your address today is a significant occasion in the history of the House.