Malacanang was told to familiarize itself with the “anti-red tape and quick response” targets that its underlings have promised the  public in the 2017 national budget so it would know if pledges of fast document processing and rapid reaction to distress calls are being met. The

The country will observe the first official National Centenarians Day two Sundays from now, on October 2, but funds for cash gifts for 100-year-old Filipinos pursuant to a new law have not been included in the 2017 budget, prompting Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto to prod both

Hard-nosed investors are attracted by incentives, and are not easily repelled by invectives. They go to where money can be made, and the Philippine is an irresistible large market of over 100 million consumers. Kung saan pa nga ang maraming mura, doon nila gusto – murang

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is pressing the Senate to host a faceoff between supporters and critics of the administration’s audacious plan to liberalize the importation of rice. In Senate Resolution 146, Recto said “the ramifications of the rice trade liberalization”

Public schools do not only lack Science and Math teachers, they also lack Science and Math equipment as the Department of Education (DepEd) “scored back-to-back failures” in buying instructional materials for these subjects, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said. Recto revealed

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto has filed a bill seeking a general tax amnesty aimed at expanding the tax base by luring untaxed individuals or those with outstanding liabilities to settle these without fear of being slapped with criminal charges. In Senate Bill No. 920, Recto

National government payroll cost will breach the P1 trillion mark next year, double from what it was in 2010, and could swell by at least P200 billion in 2018 due to the third installment of the Salary Standardization Law IV (SSL-IV), hikes in soldier and policeman pay, and

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is supporting the country’s “pivot” to a wider global market in sourcing military material, but reminded Malacañang not to bypass local industries which can provide parts or whole of the defense equipment being sought. Recto said President

If CCTVs are now being trained on government office workers, work on critical government infrastructure can also be livestreamed. Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said one way to speed up the completion of traffic jam-causing road constructions is to install a camera which

2017 OFW aid fund is ‘mere 4 hours’ worth of OFW remittances’ While earnings remittances of Overseas Filipino Workers have grown by 12.3 percent since 2013, or to $28.48 billion by end of 2015, the proposed budget of two diplomatic funds to assist OFWs in distress