DESPITE her health problems, Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago has emerged with the highest number of filed bills and resolutions in the Senate after the second regular session of the 16th Congress. Santiago, who has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, filed a total of 1,324 bills and resolutions as the Senate adjourned sine die on June 11, according to a document from the Senate bills and resolutions index service. She was followed by Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada with 642 bills and resolutions and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV with 344. Reckoning bills and resolutions separately, Santiago still topped all her colleagues with 671 bills and 629 resolutions. -pna