Political Career
She is formerly the Chairperson of four Senate Committees: Committee on Environment, Committee on Youth, Women and Family Relations, Committee on Peace, Unification and Reconciliation, and the Committee on Cultural Communities.
She has filed bills in the areas of education, juvenile justice, gender equality, empowerment, anti-trafficking and anti-pornography. She has also authored bills on the protection of the indigenous peoples and their ancestral domain as well as the protection and conservation of the environment.
She likewise sponsored bills advancing national economic interests, such as the repeal of the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998, as well as measures seeking to place LPG under price control and for the recovery of PETRON and Malampaya.
She recently filed a bill repealing RA 7942, the "Mining Act of 1995" and a bill for the imposition of a total log ban. Both bills aim to protect the last remaining natural resources from wholesale plunder.
In an opposition protest, she was one of the political leaders who were subjected to the Manila Police water cannons while attending a religious procession on October 14, 2005.
Madrigal has declared her candidacy for President in the upcoming 2010 presidential elections.
During the presidential campaign, Madrigal launched many allegations of corruption against Sen. Manny Villar (NP). Over the course of the campaign, Madrigal brought out "700 pages of evidence" to prove that Villar had "realigned C-5 (a main Metro Manila thoroughfare) to pass by real estate developments so that would be paid for right of way." These accusations, coupled with the legislative backing of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile (PMP), are said to have dealt the deathblow to Villar's presidential aspirations in 2010. She lost the election to Senator Benigno Aquino III.
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