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Press Release 10 April 2023 President Marcos Jr.’s first social legislation will free 610,000 farmers from debts owed in acquiring agrarian reform lands whose combined area of more 1.17 million hectares is 277 times the size of Manila, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said today....

Press Release 15 March 2023 Government collects more than P380 billion a year from crude oil and petroleum products, a fraction of which can be used to finance the clean-up of the Mindoro oil spill and indemnify impacted coastal residents, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto sai...

Press Release 13 March 2023 As farmgate prices of onion plummet, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto believes government officials can find funds for the building of cold storages with the same creativity that that they are raising capital for the Maharlika Fund. “If they boast they...

Press Release 10 March 2023 President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s plan to kick-start 194 high impact projects worth P9 trillion “is the forward-thinking needed to erase the infrastructure backlog,” House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said. “That is grand vision on the infrastructure side...

Statement of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 8 March 2023 Sa pagbili ng airport security bodycams, huwag sanang tularan ng DOTR ang PNP na inabot ng apat na taon bago mabili ang mga ito. It should be treated as an emergency purchase, not an item for eternal...

Press Release 8 March 2023 Surging inflation or not, the government’s P91 billion annual utilities and fuel bill should prompt President Marcos Jr. to relaunch a better version of his father’s 1970s “enercon campaign,” House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said. And if President...

Press Release 5 March 2023 Digitalization of government transactions should not only lead in “ease in doing business” but must also be “easy on the pocket, “ Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said today. “Online processing should not cause the uptick of fees,” Recto said, “because the...

Statement of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 3 March 2023 The DOTR should consider purchasing body cameras for OTS personnel manning X-ray machines and other airport security checkpoints that put them in close contact with passengers. This simple device would...

On the Confirmation of the Appointment of Executive Secretary Salvador “Bingbong” Medialdea Senate Minority Leader Ralph G. Recto Mr. President, fellow members of the Commission. I have always maintained the view that the President’s choice of Executive Secretary is a “privilege...

Mr. President: Like anything written on the blackboard, we can erase and change the amount of “chalk allowance” our public schools teachers get. Which is what this bill precisely sets out to do – erasing “P1,500” and replacing it with “P3,500.” “Chalk allowance” is the popular...

The burden of being a senator is that we are not only answerable to the present and to the future, but also to the past. And we are reminded of our being trustees of a proud heritage when we walk past the names of our predecessors etched on the plaques that hang on the corridor...

On the confirmation of Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III   Mr. President:   The nominee is our real peace czar. He is waging peace in two fronts: labor and rural insurgency. This has forced him to be our first Labor secretary in history to moonlight in another job, or work two...

On the confirmation of the Appointment  of Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III Mr. President: While the nominee is not the youngest conscript in the Cabinet, he certainly is among the wisest. If the present crew of secretaries has been referred to as the professors who had...

Mr. President, I am endorsing the nomination of Dr. Ben Diokno as Budget secretary for reasons as thick as the national budget, but not the least of which is that he is a fellow Batangueño. Because history books often mention our forebears in tandem, then it is inconceivable for...

Speech of Senate Minority Leader Ralph G. Recto 6th Philippine International Motorshow 14 September 2016 World Trade Center, Pasay City Magandang umaga po. Thank you very much for that kind introduction. For a moment there, I felt like a car whose specs were being read out loud....

Elective officials in this land—from the president down to the barangay captain—have the same employment status: they’re casuals elected to fixed terms. They are hired or fired through the same process— via the ballot, with their employers, otherwise known as the electorate, each...