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SEP
14
2016

6th Philippine International Motorshow

World Trade Center, Pasay City
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SEP
13
2016

Explanation of Vote (SB No. 1112): Postponing the Oct. 2016 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections

Elective officials in this land—from the president down to the barangay captain—have the same employment status: they’re casuals elected to fixed terms. They are hired or fired through the same process— via the ballot, with their employers, otherwise known as the electorate, each
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SEP
13
2016

Mary Jane deserves clemency and our government’s full support in securing it – Recto

Mary Jane Veloso was not a drug lord. She was not even a user. On the contrary, she was used to smuggle drugs without her knowledge. She was going to Indonesia to work as maid, not knowing that she was already a mule. If she was a conscious, willing participant in transporting
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SEP
13
2016

Recto to Digong : Condone debts of agrarian reform beneficiaries

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is seeking today the condonation of all unpaid amortizations of agrarian reform beneficiaries, saying such a move will not only spare farmers from piling debts but also spur agricultural productivity all over the country. Recto urged President
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SEP
11
2016

Incompetence wasted, delayed P2.6 billion in child feeding funds last year—Recto

The Senate minority will push for the restoration of the P800 million cut in the 2017 budget for feeding programs for malnourished children and the tripling of the budget per meal to P30. Minority Leader Ralph Recto said he will also demand assurance that the incompetence shown
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SEP
10
2016

Include purchase of ambulances, tow trucks, police cars in trillion-peso traffic plan – Recto

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is urging the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to include in its P1.15 trillion wish list of traffic solutions the purchase of ambulances and tow trucks “so that emergency teams could rush to accident sites to help victims and clear traffic
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SEP
09
2016

Recto : 1 in 4 public schools waterless, 1 in 6 without power

While gains have been made in cutting teacher and classroom shortages, focus should now shift to addressing the lack of water, sanitation and electricity in thousands of public schools, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said. With one in four schools without clean water and one
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SEP
08
2016

Gov’t plans to slash number of rural doctors by half, nurses by one-third

The Department of Health (DOH) is slashing by one-half the number of doctors and by one-third the number of nurses it plans to deploy to the grassroots next year, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto revealed today. The DOH also intends to send out fewer dentists to public health
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SEP
07
2016

‘With barangay polls scrapped, how do you ‘endo’ barangay chairmen who are also drug captains?’ 

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said it would be up to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and other agencies to “legally prevent” barangay officials who coddle or are in cahoots with drug lords from enjoying a one-year extension in office. “Those who are
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SEP
07
2016

Traffic powers price tag: P1.15 trillion, minimum—Recto

How much would the land-sea-air traffic improvement measures cost? P1.15 trillion. And that’s just the minimum, according to Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto, as many proposed projects in the menu submitted by the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to the Senate “are still
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