Professional Experience

• Senate Blue Ribbon Committee

  2017–Present; 2004–2010 Chairman

• Senate of the Philippines

  2016–Present; 2004–2010 Senate

• Philippine Red Cross

  2004–Present Chairman

• Department of Tourism

  2001–2004 Secretary

• Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority

  1992–1998 Chairman

• Philippine Red Cross

  1987 Governor

• Olongapo City

  1988–1993; 1980–1986 Mayor

• Angara Cruz concepcion Abello and Associates Law Office

  1975–1989 Associate

• Constitutional Convention of the Philippines

  1971 Delegate

Significant Works/Projects

• Senate of the Philippines

  2021 Senator

  One of the authors of the Bayanihan We Heal as One Act

• Philippine Red Cross

  2019 Chairman

  Offered RT-PCR testing

  Put up 160 medical tents

  Offered financial aid amounting to P82 million to 23,000 families

• Senate of the Philippines

  2009 Senator

  One of the authors of the Tourism Act of 2009

• Infrastructure

  • Push for Regional Investment and Infastructure Coordinating Hub (RICH) in Central Luzon
  • Build airports and seaports

Agriculture

Infrastructure

Environment

Family and Women's Rights

Labor/Worker's Rights

Global Politics

Previous Administration

• The Lawphil Project | Jan. 18, 2011

  Liban vs. Gordon

  Petition to declare Gordon as having forfeited his seat in the Senate after accepting the chairmanship of the Philippine National Red Cross Board of Governors, in violation of Sec. 13, Article VI of the Constitution. The Supreme Court declared that the office of the chairman of PNRC is not a government office or an office in a GOCC for purposes of the prohibition in Sec. 13, Article VI of the Constitution

• The Lawphil Project | Sept. 18, 1998

  Executive Secretary vs. Gordon

  Petition to declare Gordon and two others in contempt of court, due to alleged forum shopping by Gordon in the two petitions he filed to prevent his ouster as chairman of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority upon the change of administration from President Fidel V. Ramos to President Joseph Ejercito Estrada. On Nov. 18, 1998, the Supreme Court dismissed the petition, ruling that Gordon had filed a notice of withdrawal of the first petition which was later granted

• The Lawphil Project | June 22, 1993

  Flores, et al. vs. Drilon, Gordon

  The constitutionality of Sec. 13, par. (d), of the "Bases Conversion and Development Act of 1992," under which Mayor Gordon of Olongapo City was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the SBMA was challenged in a petition for prohibition "to prevent useless and unnecessary expenditures of public funds by way of salaries and other operational expenses attached to the office. On June 22, 1993, the Supreme Court declared that Gordon remains Mayor of Olongapo City, and his acts as SBMA official are not necessarily null and void; he may be considered a de facto officer Any and all per diems, allowances and other emoluments which may have been received by Gordon pursuant to his appointment may be retained by him.

• The Lawphil Project | Sept. 08, 1988

  Gordon vs. Judge Veridiano

  The issue before the Court is the conflict between the Food and Drug Administration and the mayor of Olongapo City over the power to grant and revoke licenses for the operation of drug stores in the said city. While conceding that the FDA possesses such power, the mayor claims he may nevertheless, in the exercise of his own power, prevent the operation of drug stores previously permitted by the former. The Supreme Court declared that the challenged Orders are MODIFIED in the sense that the suspension of Mayor's Permit No. 1955 shall be considered valid but drug stores return to their original sites as specified in the FDA licenses and the mayor's permits or until the request for transfer, if made by the private respondents/owners, is approved by the petitioner/Mayor Gordon.