CONGRESSMAN JACK ENRILE has been an ardent student of life. Learning from it, being reformed by it and living it to the fullest, this time in pursuit of serving the country, hoping to make a difference in solving the nation’s major problems: poverty and hunger in his lifetime.
A non-conventional change agent, Jack has stood up for fairness and equity believing that uplifting the lives of Filipinos can only be done if one empowers them and involves them in the process. Leveling the playing field for every Filipino is important to Jack since it is the only way one can rise to confront poverty and hunger.
Independent minded, Jack has been in public service for 10 years now starting as an elected representative in 1998 and serving a full term (9 consecutive years) until 2007 for the First District of the Province of Cagayan.
The original author of Batas Kasambahay or the Magna Carta of Household Helpers (HN553), Jack is also author of Anti-Trust (HN549); increasing the allowable personal and additional exemptions of individual taxpayers (550); reducing the income tax rates of individual taxpayers (HN551); defining the crime of home invasion, among others.
An advocate of food sovereignty and credit card reform, Jack is a member of the following committees in the 15th Congress: Accounts, Agriculture and Food, Appropriations and Way & Means.
The only son and namesake of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile of Cagayan and the former Ambassador to the Vatican, H.E. Cristina Castaner-Ponce Enrile of Manila, Jack completed his elementary (1972) and high school (1976) education from Ateneo de Manila University. He finished his Bachelor of Arts at Christian Heritage College, El Cajon, California and his Presidential Masters in Business Administration at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California.
A reservist of the 4th Philippine Marine Brigade, Jack is founder of the Philippine Practical Shooting Association and Regional Director of the International Practical Shooting Confederation.
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