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With less than 40 days before Christmas, release papers of old, sickly and infirm prisoners should now be on their way to Malacañang, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said in appealing anew to President Duterte to give “the gift of clemency” next month to frail prisoners who

President Duterte’s threat to pull out from the International Criminal Court (ICC) “is just one of his trademark ‘thinking out loud’ moments which spice up his public speeches.” This is Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto’s take on the Duterte’s statement that the Philippines may

The long-awaited rules that will implement tax breaks for persons with disabilities (PWDs) and their kin who care for them will be signed on Dec. 1, Department of Social Welfare and Development officials said in reply to a query from Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto during

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto today called for the reinstallation of the “rearview mirror” in the national budget so that policymakers and the public would know if projects funded in past general appropriations laws have indeed been implemented. Thick the 5,097-page 2017

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said the Bureau of Customs (BOC) has no option but to waive the payment of taxes for balikbayan boxes containing less than P150,000 worth of “pasalubong” as the new law prescribing higher tax-exempt rates should be deemed in effect. The absence

Senate begins Monday floor debates on President Duterte’s maiden national budget, a P3.3 trillion spending request, with billions in lump sums the Senate minority leader insisted “can still be itemized.” Senator Ralph Recto claims that there is a “bipartisan consensus” to demand

The greenlight to rehabilitate must come from scientists, based on an unassailable study whose conclusion is that a dead plant can be safely resurrected beyond reasonable doubt. It should be a science-based decision, and not because someone has a “lightbulb” moment and then

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is rallying his colleagues “to rescue the thousands of Department of Health jobs in peril” as the proposed 2017 budget for the DOH’s grassroots manpower deployment program will not be able to retain the number of personnel currently hired. Recto

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto today called for the itemization of Yolanda reconstruction projects in next year’s proposed P37.2 billion Calamity Fund “in order to complete all rehabilitation work by end of 2017.” “There is still much work to be done in Eastern Visayas but

Here’s what Duterte should do in the opening days of the Trump era. First, send a nice congratulatory letter. And declare a moratorium on cursing. He should stop dropping F-bombs on the White House occupant. Those intercontinental expletives he fires do no good. Second, tap VP