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Press Release 30 April 2023 Chinese acts of aggression in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) should be met with indignation at every turn because not to do so would play into Beijing’s game plan that the Philippines would eventually tire out from protesting, House Deputy Speaker Ralph...

Press Release 29 April 2023 The P249 million the Land Transportation Office (LTO) needs for it to buy 5.2 million plastic driver’s license cards is what the agency earns “in a mere three and half days,” House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said. “Hindi kakulangan ng pera ang dahilan,...

Press Release 20 April 2023 President Marcos Jr. should certify as urgent the House bill extending the deadline of the estate tax amnesty for another two years, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said. Recto said people will “save billions while government will earn billions” by...

Press Release 17 April 2023 It is not yet late for the government to turn the Mindoro oil spill as site of an “environmental Balikatan” where even nations at loggerheads with each other, like the U.S. and China, can “work together in fighting a real ecological disaster instead of...

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝟏𝟔 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 Police officers who participate in drug busts must be made to wear body cameras, so that a video recording of the operation will aid in prosecuting suspects, commend deserving officers, and deter those caught, and their coddlers, from bribing their way...

Press Release 13 April 2023 At least 2,189 new taxpayer-funded free medical education slots will open in the 2023-2024 school year, raising the number of “Doktor Para Sa Bayan” scholars to a “brigade size” 3,600, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said. “This is a 150% increase. We...

Magiging batas na ang panukalang nag-aabswelto sa agrarian reform beneficiaries mula sa pagkaka-utang at pagbabayad ng buwis sa lupang iginawad sa kanila sa ilalim ng Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). Ito’y matapos ratipikahan ng Kongreso at Senado ang bicam...

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝟏𝟏 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑  As the country braces for the return of El Nino, President Marcos Jr. should lead in the upgrading of the RAIN or “Roadmap to Address the Impact of El Nino” so that the weather phenomenon will not seriously harm the country’s food,...

Acceptance Speech of Minority Leader Ralph G. Recto 25 July 2016 Thank you, Chiz, for your kind eulogy. To borrow your own words, fate may not have smiled kindly in your bid to be the Number 2 official in the land, but you can always be my number 2. One of the benefits of this...

The National ICT Summit 2016 Novotel Hotel, Quezon City June 29, 2016 In 48 hours, we will witness one of democracy’s hallmarks, which makes it one of civilization’s greatest apps: the orderly transfer of power. One leader logs out; another logs in. Benigno Aquino III will do...

SPEECH OF SENATE PRESIDENT PRO-TEMPORE RALPH G. RECTO League of Municipalities of the Philippines Marriot Hotel, Manila February 10, 2016 1. Bigger IRA, Higher LGU Share Equal sharing in a bigger pie. LGU share from internal revenues should be increased from the present 40% to...

by Ronnel Agor del Rio  Delivered at the Partido Galing at Puso (GP) Proclamation Rally Plaza Miranda, Quiapo, Manila   Magandang hapon po sa inyong lahat. Ako po ay bulag. Hindi po ako nakakakita. Pero hindi po ako bulag sa katotohanan. At hindi rin po ako bulag sa...

Keynote Speech of Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto PHILIPPINE ASSOCIATION OF WATER DISTRICTS (PAWD) 37th National Convention Clark, Pampanga 04 February 2016 Magandang umaga po. I am happy to see all of you again. Two years have passed since we last saw each other in...

SPONSORSHIP SPEECH by Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto SBN 449; CRN 54 Mr. President: This campaign to have this measure passed into law began a long time ago, in the last decade of the last century. But it is not for this that it is called a Centenarian Bill, not yet,...

Sponsorship Speech on the Public Private Parntership (PPP) Bill by Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto Mr. President: I have purposely shunned using visual aids today in order not to remind you of the moniker once given to the Public Private Partnership program whose...

Mr. President: Budget comes from the old French word bougette, which means “bag” or “purse.” In the olden days, a person’s entire wealth could fit in a bougette, and so did the entire budget of a government office. During the birth of our Republic, Heneral Luna was said to have...