Senator Angara is among the most hardworking and productive members of Congress, having sponsored or authored more than 300 laws in his more than two decades of service as a legislator.

Like his parents, former Senate President Edgardo Angara and teacher Gloria Manalang, Senator Sonny Angara values education as a tool for fighting poverty. He has worked to widen access to education, pushing for the passage of the Free College Law, which makes tuition-free all state universities and colleges (SUCs) and select local universities and colleges (LUC); the Unified Student Financial Assistance System Act (UNIFAST) which ensures that scholarships go to poor and deserving students; and the Student Fare Discount, which expands the fare privileges given to students to cover public transportation on land, rail, and water, even air. He is also one of the authors of the Universal Kindergarten Law, the Ladderized Education Act, the Open Learning and Distance Education Act, Youth Entrepreneurship Act, the law integrating Moro history in the school curriculum, and several laws creating universities in far-flung rural areas.

Senator Angara represented Aurora province for three terms in the House of Representatives (2004-2013) before he was elected to his first term as senator in 2013. He is proud of having been a part of Aurora province's transformation from a provincial backwater to a growing tourist, agribusiness and investment destination.

For his achievements, he was recognized as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men for government service and legislation in 2010, and one of the Outstanding Manilans for public service in 2017.

Senator Sonny is a graduate of Xavier School, the London School of Economics, the University of the Philippines College of Law, and Harvard Law School. He has been a regular newspaper columnist, and a professor of Law. 

He is happily married to wife Tootsy. They have three children.