he gave way to Quezon City representative Feliciano Sonny Belmonte. He was at the forefront of the second high government official to ever be impeached, Philippine Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, for betrayal of the public trust. The House of Representatives successfully impeached Gutierrez in March 2011, with him being one of the representatives that defended the impeachment on the floor, and among the 212 representatives that voted to impeach her. As Congressman for three consecutive terms, his advocacies include having - opposed the increase of the Value-Added Tax to 12% recommended that legislators give up their pork barrel to cover the national budget deficit called for the creation of a Congressional commission for the audit of the public debt and the repeal of the law on automatic appropriations for debt servicing worked for the passage into law of the Magna Carta for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises which mandated that banks allocate a portion of their loan portfolios to these enterprises co-authored the law creating the Personal Equity and Retirement Account (PERA) co-authored the Agri-Agra Reform Credit Act which mandated that banks set aside 25% of their loan portfolios for the agriculture and fisheries sector authored the bill creating the Coconut Farmer's Trust Fund, which makes use of the recovered coconut levy which was misappropriated by Marcos and his cronies authored the first Universal Health Care law and inserted amendments to the Cheaper Medicines Act authored the bill which led to the passage of the Graphic Health Warnings law on cigarette packs funded a program for the continuing education of school teachers, in partnership with the Philippine Normal University funded scholarship programs for students led a campaign for the passage of a Freedom of Information law pushed for the abolition of the death penalty shepherded into law the Human Rights Victims Reparation and Compensation Act, for the benefit of the victims of Marcos' human rights violations Tañada ran during the May 13, 2019 senatorial election as part of the Otso Diretso slate, the entire slate however lost amid a contentious race that culminated in a 7-hour freeze of the transmission of the counting of votes. On July 19, 2019, the PNP–Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) filed charges against members of the Otso Diretso opposition for "sedition, cyber libel, libel, estafa, harboring a criminal, and obstruction of justice". On February 10, 2020, they were cleared of all charges. For the 2022