{"id":874061,"date":"2025-09-19T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/sotto-urges-mandatory-random-drug-testing-in-senate\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T01:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:12:07","slug":"sotto-urges-mandatory-random-drug-testing-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/sotto-urges-mandatory-random-drug-testing-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotto urges mandatory random drug testing in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE) SENATE Minority Leader Vicente Sotto III has asked Senate President Francis Escudero to conduct mandatory random drug testing in the Senate to maintain a \u201cdrug-free workplace.\u201dIn a letter to Escudero dated Aug. 17, Sotto referred to news articles published last Aug. 13 on the alleged use of marijuana within the Senate premises&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/2025\/08\/18\/news\/sotto-urges-mandatory-random-drug-testing-in-senate\/2169135\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Bernadette E. Tamayo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE) SENATE Minority Leader Vicente Sotto III has asked Senate President Francis Escudero to conduct mandatory random drug testing in the Senate to maintain a \u201cdrug-free workplace.\u201dIn a letter to Escudero dated Aug. 17, Sotto referred to news articles published last Aug. 13 on the alleged use of marijuana within the Senate premises&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45059,192,29332],"tags":[45058,12912],"class_list":{"0":"post-874061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sotto","8":"category-sports","9":"category-urges","10":"tag-sotto","11":"tag-urges"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}