page_title: 15th Congress of the Philippines
section_title: House of Representatives
hierarchical_section_title: 15th Congress of the Philippines / Leadership / House of Representatives
caption_attribution_description: Then-Quezon City Mayor Sonny Belmonte during a meeting de avance. Belmonte successfully ran for a fourth term in the House of Representatives.
context_page_description: The Fifteenth Congress of the Philippines was a meeting of the national legislature of the Republic of the Philippines, composed of the Senate and House of Representatives. The convention of the 15th Congress followed the 2010 Senate election, which replaced half of the Senate membership, and the 2010 House of Representatives elections which elected entire membership of the House of Representatives.
  The House of Representatives meets in Batasang Pambansa Complex and the Senate meets in the GSIS Building from July 26, 2010 to a certain date in 2013, from the first to possible third years of the presidency of Benigno Aquino III; this will be the end of tenure for senators elected in 2007. The 15th Congress was officially opened by President Aquino together with the joint session of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
context_section_description: Speaker of the House of Representatives
  Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. (Liberal, 4th District of Quezon City), elected July 26, 2010
  Deputy Speakers
  Lorenzo Tañada III (Liberal, 4th District of Quezon)
  Raul Daza (Liberal, 1st District of Northern Samar)
  Ma. Isabelle Climaco-Salazar, (Liberal, 1st District of Zamboanga City)
  Pablo P. Garcia (One Cebu/NUP, 3rd District of Cebu)
  Arnulfo Fuentebella (NPC, 3rd District of Camarines Sur)
  Jesus Crispin Remulla (Nacionalista, 7th District of Cavite)
  Majority Floor Leader
  Neptali Gonzales II (Liberal, Lone District of Mandaluyong)
  Minority Floor Leader
  Edcel Lagman (Independent (Lakas–CMD until January 19, 2012), 1st District of Albay), until January 20, 2012
  Danilo Suarez (Lakas–CMD, 3rd District of Quezon), since January 20, 2012
caption: Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr.
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