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Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today urged the government to allow motor vehicles to keep their license plates and limit the installation of new car plates to brand new vehicles up for registration. Recto said there is no logic to the plan of the Department of...

The ERC decision reads in part that “it voids Luzon Wholesale Electricity Spot Market prices and declares the imposition of regulated prices in lieu thereof.” This means that customers outside the Meralco franchise area stand to benefit as well from the implementation of the ERC...

To thank them for their services, government should waive vehicle registration fees of volunteer-owned fire trucks and place the brave men manning them under PhilHealth insurance. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said at present, no incentives, “except perhaps for the...

One of the three senators who have filed bills seeking to reduce personal income tax rates today welcomed the statement of Bureau of Internal Revenue chief Kim Henares that the agency will draft its own proposal. “Coming from Commissioner Henares, that’s a great leap forward,”...

If government is keen in infusing P150 billion in additional capital in the Central Bank, then why can’t it spend a fraction of that amount in reviving the Pasig River ferry and improving train service in Metro Manila? Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto pointed this out as...

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto filed on Feb. 27 a bill decriminalizing libel, joining a growing list of senators wanting to delist it from the book of crimes. In Senate Bill 2146, Recto traced the origins of libel as a tool against criticisms and to shield public...

Twenty thousand additional Yolanda-stricken families will be included in the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program this year, courtesy of a Senate amendment in the 2014 national budget which slashed P336 million from the program’s overhead in order to enroll that...

Doubling the number of Philippine National Railways (PNR) trains plying the Tutuban, Manila- Sta. Rosa Laguna line can displace 14,000 cars on the road at a per passenger cost that is 1/8th of the subsidy government pays for one Metro Rail Transit (MRT) rider. This was pointed...