A BILL renaming the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) to President Corazon C. Aquino Expressway has cleared the House Committee on Public Works and Highways. This news was met with derision in most newsrooms and among the vast majority of Philippine netizens, and with good reason.

The bill (HB 4920) had been gathering dust since it was filed by Nueva Ecija Congresswoman Magnolia Rosa Antonio-Nadres last year. Now it seems likely to pass the full House despite there being more pressing matters for that august body to address.