The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has a budget of P3.2 billion this year. Last year, it collected P1.01 billion every day. This year it has revenue goal of P436.6 billion or P1.2 billion per day. With this amount of money, it can certainly pay for a CCTV system, or what we can call

Based on the 2016 Budget of Expenditures and Sources of Financing (BESF), government “training and scholarship expenses” will jump from this year’s P27.12 billion to the proposed P32.75 billion for next year, a figure almost double of last year’s P17.51 billion. But Senate

I am looking forward to working with the youngest member of the Senate. With our agenda full, hard labor awaits him here.  With his experience, he can certainly enrich the discussions on the budget and the BBL. It is also worth noting that his liberty came on the 70th anniversary

Car plates and stickers for brand-new cars issued within seven days Registration of old cars, complete with car plates and stickers, done within two hours New driver’s license processed within four hours Old driver’s licenses renewed within 60 minutes These are the “performance

An Act Exempting From Duties And Taxes “Balikbayan Boxes” Containing Personal And Household Effects Of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW), Other Filipinos Residing Abroad And Residents Of The Philippines Returning From Abroad STATUS: Substituted by Senate Bill No. 2968

The national government is setting aside P50.6 billion in the proposed 2016 national budget for the salary hike of its 1.3 million workers, details of which will be fleshed out in a bill the Palace will later send to Congress. Although the Palace is still mum on the bill’s

Happy to have finally met the barangay leaders of Dolores, Eastern Samar who we had the opportunity to work with in sending help to victims of typhoon Ruby in December 2014, in close coordination with the office of Dolores Mayor Emiliana Villacarillo.

Senator Ralph Recto welcomes the Association of Barangay Captains from San Antonio, Quezon to the Senate. The group was led by San Antonio Mayor, Hon. Erick Wagan.

A bill making the caring of a person with disability (PWD) tax-deductible nears approval in the Senate after it was reported out for floor debates Monday. One of the measure’s authors, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto, explained in his sponsorship speech that the bill

It has been said that a government’s greatness is measured “by how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” The same test