37 Facts About Sonny Angara

Sonny Angara previously served as a senator from 2013 to 2024 and as the representative of Aurora's lone district from 2004 to 2013.

Sonny Angara is the chairman of Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, the governing body of basketball in the Philippines, since 2016.

Sonny Angara is a member of the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino party, where he currently serves as the chairman.

Sonny Angara took up his basic education at Xavier School in San Juan, Metro Manila, then attended Douai School in the UK, and finished his Bachelor of Science degree in International Relations with honors from the London School of Economics.

Sonny Angara finished his law degree at the University of the Philippines College of Law, and earned his Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sonny Angara worked as a trainee at the Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company in Makati in 1991.

Sonny Angara worked as a news reporter for The Philippine Star in 1992.

Sonny Angara served as an apprentice and member of the delegation in the Philippine Mission to the United Nations in New York in 1994.

Sonny Angara worked as an associate attorney at the Angara Abello Concepcion Regala and Cruz law firm from 2001 to 2003.

Sonny Angara taught as a professor at the New Era University College of Law and at the Centro Escolar University School of Law and Jurisprudence.

Sonny Angara was a member of the House minority and served as House deputy minority leader, thereby becoming an ex officio member of all standing and special committees of the 13th Congress.

Sonny Angara authored a number of laws of national significance and was able to focus on work in his constituency, where he used the funds allotted to his office to build over 100 classrooms and provided funds for indigent constituents in 12 government hospitals and hundreds of scholarships to deserving students at various state universities and colleges.

Sonny Angara worked together with socio-civic groups on various projects and funded the creation of the Gawad Kalinga villages for the homeless in three of Aurora's municipalities and the provision of computers and Internet access to Aurora's public high schools, together with the GILAS Foundation, and access to vocational, skills, and livelihood training through the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority and other groups.

Sonny Angara was elected to a second term as congressman in 2007, when he ran unopposed under the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino, the same political party as in 2004.

Sonny Angara served as deputy majority leader and vice chairman of the committee on rules, as an ex officio member of all standing and special committees in the House during the 14th Congress.

Sonny Angara was one of the remaining congressmen who offered aid to some of the wounded persons and personally took some of the survivors to the nearby Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation in Quezon City for treatment when a bomb was planted at the premises of the House of Representatives in 2008 which resulted in the death of Congressman Wahab Akbar and the death and serious wounding of other congressmen and congressional staffers.

Sonny Angara topped the list of "prolific and hardworking members of the House of Representatives" for filing the most number of bills of national importance that were enacted into law in the 14th Congress.

Sonny Angara was elected to a third term as congressman for Aurora in 2010.

Sonny Angara was a signatory to the impeachment complaint against then-Chief Justice Renato Corona, which was signed by the 188 members of the Philippine House of Representatives in December 2011, was eventually adopted as the Articles of Impeachment, and was passed for consideration of the Senate impeachment court.

Sonny Angara acted as deputy spokesperson of the House prosecution panel, together with Marikina Representative Miro Quimbo and Quezon Representative Lorenzo Tanada III, in the impeachment trial of the Chief Magistrate.

Sonny Angara was elected to the Senate in 2013 and was reelected in 2019.

Sonny Angara ran under the then-administration coalitions Team PNoy and Hugpong ng Pagbabago, respectively.

Sonny Angara has sponsored or authored more than 200 laws in his nearly two decades of service as a legislator.

Formerly, Sonny Angara was the chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, Sonny Angara has already worked for the enactment of:.

Sonny Angara was formerly acting chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources.

Sonny Angara sponsored RA 10691 or the amended Public Employment Service Office Act, which aims to improve and strengthen PESOs' employment facilitation services to help more Filipinos land a job especially in rural areas and poorer municipalities, and RA 10706 or the Seafarers Protection Act, which protects Filipino seafarers from ambulance chasers, particularly lawyers, who charge excessive legal fees arising from accident, illness, or death of seafarers in the course of their service.

In May 2024, Sonny Angara was among the six senators who voted to retain Migz Zubiri as Senate President.

Sonny Angara succeeded Vice President Sara Duterte, who resigned from the post on June 19,2024.

Sonny Angara wanted the Department of Education to simplify teachers' performance review.

Sonny Angara married ABS-CBN executive Tootsy Echauz in 2003; they have three children.

Sonny Angara was one of the first four highest-ranking government officials to have been infected with the SARS-CoV2 including Senators Migz Zubiri and Koko Pimentel, and AFP Chief of Staff General Felimon Santos Jr.

On May 2,2020, Sonny Angara tested positive for COVID-19 again but has since recovered as well.

Sonny Angara was one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines awardees for 2010.

Sonny Angara received his trophy from President Benigno Aquino III in a ceremony held at the Rizal Hall of the Malacanan.

Sonny Angara was a recipient of the Tanglaw ng Bayan 2011 award, the highest award given by the Polytechnic University of the Philippines in Manila to individuals with exemplary achievements in their respective fields.

Sonny Angara was conferred honorary doctorate in law by the Ramon Magsaysay Technological University in Iba, Zambales in November 2011.

Sonny Angara was one of nine recipients of the Outstanding Manilan Award in 2017.