Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro ManilaEighteenth CongressFirst Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-second day of July, two thousand nineteen. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11466] AN ACT MODIFYING THE SALARY SCHEDULE FOR CIVILIAN

Christmas is the season of giving, not of taking away; of spreading cheer, and not sowing unhappiness. But for 17,000 Angkas drivers and their families, they got the saddest and meanest Christmas gift ever: their livelihood being taken away. The gift of unemployment is the most

During the Senate plenary deliberations on the proposed P4.1-trillion national budget for 2020, Recto pointed out that the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) had already earmarked P31.1 billion for the next tranche of the Salary Standardization Law. Replying to Recto’s

Ayon sa datos, two percent lamang ng national budget ang inilalaan para sa Department of National Defense (DND), kaya naman isinusulong ni Senator Ralph Recto na dagdagan ang budget ng ahensiya upang makapag-invest hindi lamang sa shipbuilding equipment na siyang magiging

Mr. President, dear colleagues, fellow workers in government: This bill is not a gift of one person, nor the result of the generosity of one institution. It springs from the grace of taxpayers who will ultimately pick up the P310 billion, four-year tab of this bill. It will come

Explanation of VoteCommending Hon. Juan Miguel F. Zubiri for Leading the Philippine National Team for Arnis to Resounding Victory in the 30th Southeast Asian Games Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto Mr. President: There is one canon in politics that was preached by Teddy

Explanation of Vote on Senate Bill No. 1077Creating a National Transportation Safety Board Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto This bill, like our traffic-delayed planes and buses, may have been late in coming. But the alternative of it not arriving at all would have been

Explanation of Vote on Senate Bill No. 1155Amending the Comprehensive Firearms and Ammunition Regulation Act Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto When rules are complicated and the process in securing permits are complex, it leads not to compliance, to but to evasion. This

PHP11.6-billion cut made in the budget of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for 2020 would affect hundreds of thousands of college students availing of its scholarship programs. – For 2020, CHED was allocated PHP40.784 billion, which is nearly 23 percent lower than