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Better for Cabinet members who are planning to run for office to stay longer in their post so they will be able to defend their agency’s budget request for 2016 and report how they used the funds for the current year. This was pointed out by Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G....

On the proposed LRT fare increase: It should go through public hearings or at the very least the people must be told the need, the justification and the legal basis. Most important, fare hike proponents must explain what improvements will a fare increase bring. What are the...

Malacañang has been urged to unveil the pay hike package it is proposing for the nation’s civil servants, if any, so that it can be studied in earnest by Congress and by the state employees themselves. The call was made by Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto, who said...

It’s free, easy to open, simple to maintain, and not hard to access. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto is referring to a Facebook (FB) account, which more than 30 million Filipinos have as of latest count. Now Recto is asking government to open an account for every...

The Health department budget will jump from P87.8 billion this year to P124.2 billion next year, an impressive 41 percent hike never before seen in history. “Call it a booster shot or a massive fund transfusion, but percentage-wise, this one breaks the record,” Sen. Ralph Recto...

From August 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016, the government must build an average of 254 classrooms a day – or about two kilometers long every 24 hours – in order for President Aquino to redeem his promise of building 84,728 classrooms in his last 11 months in office. Senate President...

A national budget is a spending measure but it ceases to be when the funds it appropriates “are spent slowly, spent late or not spent at all.” Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto said this in pointing out that more than the “peso signs” in the proposed three trillion-peso...

Two important documents submitted after the State of the Nation Address (SONA) are as important as the SONA itself, “and in fact are better tools in assessing the state of the nation,” Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto said. These are the Technical Report to the SONA...