Mannix Dalipe

First term (2016–2019)

Dalipe won his first term as representative for Zamboanga City's 2nd district in 2016, having rejoined NPC, when he defeated Macrohon-Nuño, who ran for reelection under the Nacionalista Party.

During the 17th Congress, Dalipe was elected vice chairperson of the House committees on Higher and Technical Education, National Defense and Security, and Public Works and Highways. He was also a member of 11 other committees for the majority bloc. He was elected chairman of the House Committee on the Welfare of Children on February 6, 2019, replacing Zamboanga del Sur representative Divina Grace Yu.

Dalipe principally authored and co-authored 170 legislative measures in his first term as congressman, several of which were passed into law. These included House Bill No. 4767, enacted as Republic Act No. 10928, which extended the validity of Philippine passports under the Philippine Passport Act of 1996; House Bill No. 6221, enacted as Republic Act No. 11055, known as the Philippine Identification System Act, which established PhilSys; House Bill No. 6573, enacted as Republic Act No. 11053, or the Anti-Hazing Act of 2018; House Bill No. 6742, enacted as Republic Act No. 11087, which increased the bed capacity of the Zamboanga City Medical Center from 500 to 800; and House Bill No. 6775, enacted as Republic Act No. 11201, which created the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development.

Second term (2019–2022)

Dalipe ran for reelection in 2019, defeating former representatives Lilia Macrohon-Nuño and Erbie Fabian, as well as vice mayor Cesar Iturralde.

During the 18th Congress, Dalipe was elected vice chairperson of the Committee on Appropriations and served as a member of the committees on National Defense and Security, Public Order and Safety, and Welfare of Children as part of the majority bloc.

Dalipe supported the presidential and vice presidential bids of Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte, respectively, in the 2022 presidential election, despite not being endorsed by Duterte for the congressional race, as she instead backed only 1st district candidate and incumbent city mayor Beng Climaco. He was later designated a regular member of the joint congressional committee tasked with canvassing votes in the presidential election.

Third term and House majority leader (2022–2025)

In September 2020, Dalipe left NPC to join Lakas–CMD, led by then-House majority leader Martin Romualdez, ahead of the upcoming elections. He won a third consecutive term as representative.

On July 25, 2022, at the start of the 19th Congress, Dalipe was elected majority floor leader and chairman of the House Committee on Rules after being nominated by Cavite 2nd district representative Lani Mercado. He succeeded Romualdez, who was elected speaker of the House. He is the second House majority leader from Mindanao, after Prospero Nograles. In November of the same year, Dalipe co-authored House Bill No. 6398, which sought to create the Maharlika Investment Fund, and was designated legislative caretaker of Zamboanga del Norte's 1st district until the electoral dispute between candidates Bullet Jalosjos and Pinpin Uy was resolved.

Dalipe was elected executive vice president of Lakas–CMD on February 3, 2023.

In a survey conducted by the RP-Mission and Development Foundation from June 25 to July 5, 2023, Dalipe ranked third alongside four other representatives among the country's top-performing legislators, receiving a 91.34% rating from constituents.

In November 2023, Dalipe called on former president Rodrigo Duterte to “spare” members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) from “partisan intrigues” that could cast doubt on their professionalism, after Duterte warned Congress about alleged connivance between lawmakers and uniformed personnel.

He supported attempts to amend the 1987 Constitution, describing the filing of Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri's Resolution of Both Houses No. 6, which called for a constituent assembly, as "finally seeing the light," amid disagreements between the Senate and the House over charter change.

In July 2024, Dalipe described a circulating artificial intelligence (AI)-generated deepfake video depicting a man whom supporters of former president Duterte alleged to be President Bongbong Marcos as a malicious and desperate attempt to damage Marcos's reputation.

On February 5, 2025, Dalipe led the floor proceedings during the first impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte and became the third lawmaker among the 215 who signed the impeachment complaint against her. In the same month, Dalipe questioned the timing of graft and criminal complaints filed against him and other representatives by allies of former president Duterte, including former speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, lawyers Ferdinand Topacio and Virgilio Garcia, and senatorial candidate Jimmy Bondoc. The complaints concerned alleged insertions in the 2025 national budget. Dalipe described them as retaliatory tactics intended to deflect attention from the real issue of the "proper and lawful use of taxpayer money."

In April 2025, Dalipe filed a cyberlibel complaint against The Manila Times over a report linking him to a document allegedly prepared by the administration coalition Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas to target the Duterte opposition senatorial slate in the midterm elections.

Committee membership