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HEARING ON THE CREATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND THE ARTS: Senators Bam Aquino, chair of the Committee on Education, Arts and Culture, discusses the proposed creation of the Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA) by reorganizing the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) into an independent department during a public hearing, Wednesday, January 25, 2017. Under the proposed measure, all government agencies related to culture such as the National Archives, the National Museum, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino, and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples will be under the DCA. (PRIB Photo by Cesar Tomambo/ January 25, 2017)