SB 2493: Vintage Vehicle Regulation ActExplanation of Vote of Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto31 January 2022 The first automobile arrived in the Philippines in 1900, a “Georges Richard” imported from France by the store La Estrella del Norte for its customer, a

Explanation of vote of Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto31 January 2022 Exactly two years ago today, the swab test on the country’s COVID-19 Patient 2, a Chinese national, returned positive. A day later, on February 1, 2020, he expired. Patient 2 was confirmed as the

EXPLANATION OF VOTE HB 10373: Extending the Availability of 2021 GAA to December 31, 2022 Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto 13 December 2021 Mr. President:  The essence of this bill is to extend the clock on the current national budget. Appropriations bear expiry

SPONSORSHIP SPEECH CR 32 on SB 1241 Timbangan ng Bayan Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto 01 December 2021 A wisecrack once compared candidates to canned goods – many are weighed but have been found wanting. Appraising the former is a function of election. The latter,

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said he will vote for the grant of the Senate Medal of Excellence to Nobel laureate Maria Ressa. Ms. Ressa’s Nobel satisfies all the conditions in the Senate resolution governing the conferment of the Senate honor, according to Recto. “But

Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro ManilaEighteenth CongressThird Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of July, two thousand seventeen. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11591] AN ACT FIXING THE LAST DAY OF REGISTRATION OF

SPONSORSHIP SPEECH Committee Report No. 311 on SB No. 2407 Tax on Proprietary Educational Institutions Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto 21 September 2021 If you recall, CREATE was marketed as the law that will save distressed companies from sinking in a sea of red

Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro ManilaEighteenth CongressThird Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of July, two thousand twenty-one. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11589] AN ACT STRENGTHENING AND MODERNIZING THE BUREAU OF

The purchase of billions of pesos of PPEs, face shields and masks from China – when better quality locally-produced ones were available at a far lower price – underscores the need to restore the “Buy Filipino” provision in the national budget, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph

Scientists should not be muzzled during the pandemic as their views guide government in decision making, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “We can’t contain the pandemic if we censor studies,” Recto said, referring to calls to stop the independent OCTA Research from