The quarter of a million Filipinos in Kuwait sent home P40.6 billion last year, an amount which, if they were a company, would have ranked them the Philippines’ 37th biggest in terms of gross revenues, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. If you add up their remittances

Expediting The Titling Of Lands Awarded Under The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, Lifting The Restrictions On The Utilization Of Such Lands As Collateral For Securing Agricultural Loans, And Other Similar Financial Instruments, And For Other Purposes   Download PDF

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto hailed President Duterte’s signing on Feb. 2 of the Free Irrigation Law, saying it should “open the floodgates of an irrigation building spree, which is needed for us to feed our growing number of people.” Republic Act 10969 grants free

Saying that the “law is in the details,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today pressed the government to submit “the economic fine print” that will underpin the proposed Bangsamoro government’s fiscal autonomy. In a request coursed through Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri, Recto

Mr. President, my dear colleagues: The nominee is my seatmate in the Arroyo Cabinet, which was when I saw how good a doctor he is. When I dug into a bag of chicharon, he never lectured me about cholesterol; when wine was served, he saw to it that my glass was always full; and

Statement of Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto I support President Duterte’s pivot in Benham Rise. With the West Philippine Sea effectively fenced off, we have to look to the “east Philippine seas” for our food and fuel. If there’s an impregnable Great Wall of Sand from

National Child Feeding Program: One Recipe Against Rising GNP – Gutom na Pilipino Explanation of Vote Speech on Senate Bill 1279: Masustansyang Pagkain Para sa Batang Pilipino by Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto* The good news is that our GDP is increasing. The bad

The Department of Health has a P634 million advertising budget for this year, “which it should use to fight the fake news that all vaccines are bad.” The suggestion was made by Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, who said that the DOH’s “advertising war chest” is big enough

Republic of the Philippines Congress of the Philippines Metro Manila Seventeenth Congress Second Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of July, two thousand seventeen. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10969] AN ACT PROVIDING FREE IRRIGATION

The Department of Foreign Affairs’ P1.2 billion help fund this year for its 8 million citizens abroad may not be enough to aid expatriate Filipinos in distress following President Duterte’s apparent “no OFW left behind” policy, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. Recto