In recent news about the development of the state of the Reproductive Health Bill in the country, twenty Philippine senators signed an approval of the said bill. This signing of an approval means a great development for the RH Bill for it means that the bill is actually going somewhere and not neglected totally. In a previous blog entry, I listed down the name of the Senators who signed the said approval. In the next few blog entries, I will be discussing the profiles of these Senators and probably state why they signed the approval. For today, we will be looking at Senator Alan Peter Cayetano.
Alan Peter Schramm Cayetano, born on October 28, 1970, is a Filipino senator. His father was the late former Senator Renato “Compañero” Cayetano. While his mother was Sandra-Schramm Cayetano, a teacher. Alan Peter Cayetano has two other brothers and one sister: Pia Cayetano Sebastian, a senator; Rene Carl Cayetano, a councilor; and Lino Edgardo Cayetano, a television and film director.
Alan Peter Cayetano studied in De La Salle-Santiago Zobel School in Alabang for his elementary education and high school education. He then went on to study at the University of the Philippines where he took up and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and graduated in 1993. After that, he continued studying and went to study at the Ateneo de Manila University. From there, he became a Juris Doctor in 1997, and then took the bar exam where he was admitted in 1998.
After being admitted into the bar, Alan Peter Cayetano worked in some firms. He then ran during the 1992 elections and won as the Representative of the Taguig/Pateros area. He served as the councilor of Taguig/Pateros from 1992 to 1995. He also became the Vice Mayor of Taguig from 1995 to 1998. From there, he went on to become the Representative of the Taguig/Pateros area from 1998 to 2007. It was in 2007 that Alan Peter Cayetano became a Senator of the Philippines, where he will serve until the end of his term in 2013. He is also a partner of his own law firm, the Cayetano, Sebastian, Ata, Dado, and Cruz (CASELAW), in which he established in 1998.
As a Philippine Senator, Alan Peter Cayetano has done a number of things while in office. During the 11th Congress, he was one of the Representative who endorsed a verified complaint for impeachment against former President Joseph “Erap” Ejercito Estrada. During the 13th Congress, he was one of the people who said no to the dumping of the impeachment complaint against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2005 and 2006. Also during the 11th Congress, he was one of the Senators who signed the RA 8749, also known as the Philippine Clean Air Act.
Alan Peter Cayetano, though a little known senator, can do so much for the passing of the Reproductive Health Bill into a law. I just hope he does something profoundly for the RH Bill that will not only turn the faith of the bill around, but also turn his career upside down for the better.
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