House leaders join the administration’s economic team for a breakfast hosted by Speaker Martin Romualdez before the official start this morning of the  month-long House hearings on the proposed P5.268 trillion national budget of the Marcos administration for 2023.

Press Release Office of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 23 August 2022 DSWD, a big ATM – Ayuda, Tulong Machine – has smallest regular staff of 2,993 The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s flawed aid distribution to indigent students was a “teachable

Press Statement of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto When it comes to public spending, the problem is not in budget authorization, or when Congress approves the budget, but in budget execution, when agencies spend the budget given to them. The budget is supposed to

Saan aabot ang 18 pesos mo? Ayon sa bagong labas na estatistika ng pamahalaan, kasya na daw pangluto ng isang kainan para sa isang tao. Kaya kung altanghap, sapat na daw ang ₱55.80 na arawang budget.  Ito ang tinatawag na daily food threshold ng isang Pinoy, ayon sa

Finding the “sweet spot” which will determine the right volume of sugar imports that will both protect producers and consumers must be “solely based on science and insulated from lobby and politics,” Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said. Recto said sugar demand and supply forecast

Highly-capable Budget chief Pangandaman can end procurement mess – Recto Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph Recto called on Budget Secretary Amenah Pangandaman to conduct a “post mortem on delayed and bungled” procurement activities of the Procurement Service which is

BBM should end ‘pasa-buy’ procurement, dismantle ‘parking lots’ Press Release 10 August 2022 If it wants faster delivery of critical projects and equipment, the Marcos administration must end the “pasa-buy” scheme in government purchases which has created

Press Statement of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 2 August 2022 Senior pension hike law raises the P25-billion-peso question This year, the Social Pension for Indigent Seniors Program covers 4,079,669 seniors, costing taxpayers P25.01 billion annually. If the

Press Release 1 August 2022 On new disaster agency, name doesn’t matter; powers and funding do – Recto Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto said whatever the official name of the new disaster response agency will be is “secondary to its powers and functions.” “I

Privilege Speech of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 01 August 2022 Mr. Speaker, my dear colleagues. I join the nation in mourning the passing of a statesman who changed the course of our country and the lives of our people for the better. President Ramos was brave