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No doubt it’s a grand conspiracy, but the Senate needs to uncover the connection between a group of hackers and high officials of the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) if it wants to solve the $81-million money laundering mystery that rocked the country’s

Government should press full speed ahead in acquiring needed K to 12 classrooms, equipment and teachers after the Supreme Court (SC) rejected several pleas seeking to stop the implementation of the program adding three years to the basic education curriculum. With classes in

President Aquino was urged to sign into law a bill reforming customs and port procedures which one of its authors say would help stamp out smuggling like the kind the country’s hog raisers are protesting against. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said the proposed Customs

Because lack of transportation or high fares is a leading cause of school absences, government must include bicycles for poor kids in its education shopping cart, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said today. Recto said there is already funding for the purchase of “bancas

Senator Salonga was sui generis, a class of his own. Any senator who serves in the Senate will have to be measured by the Salonga standard. This titan of nationalism left giant footprints which have impacted our nation for good. I respectfully suggest that with the family’s

Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto today called on Malacañang to expedite the signing into law of a recently-approved bill creating the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), saying the country needs “Special Action Forces” in cyberspace

Six hundred thousand pieces of imported car plates would not have passed through the port of Manila, where Customs officials seized them, if they were only manufactured locally. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto cited the above case in underscoring the need for government

The distribution of women’s “dignity kits” during disasters and emergencies is now mandatory, pursuant to a Department of Health (DOH) order released last month, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said today. The kit must contain 22 items of women’s personal care,

Government will only have to shell out P9.1 billion – or equivalent to its water, power and gasoline expenses in six months – to make public colleges tuition-free, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said. “The numbers show that it is attainable and affordable,” Recto sai

Not all is lost for the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) bill, as there is a three-week post-election window in which the Senate can pass the measure institutionalizing a program all presidential candidates have agreed must be strengthened, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto