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2,189 new slots to raise “Doktor sa Bayan” scholars to 3,600

13 April 2023, Comment are Off
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...

Good news sa ating mga magsasaka

11 April 2023, Comment are Off
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...

BBM should update RAIN – Roadmap to Address Impact of El Niño – to spare

11 April 2023, Comment are Off
????? ??????? ?? ????? ????  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,...

Per hectare debt of farmers to be condoned lower than per sqm price of NCR condo

10 April 2023, Comment are Off
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....

A drop in the P380 B oil tax barrel: Katas ng langis gamitin sa oil spill – Recto

15 March 2023, Comment are Off
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...

“If gov’t can raise Maharlika billions, why not funds for onion cold storages?”

13 March 2023, Comment are Off
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...

P9 trillion infra list “great, but must include debt component” – Recto

10 March 2023, Comment are Off
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...

Citing PNP experience, airport bodycams are emergency buys, not for eternal procurement – Recto

08 March 2023, Comment are Off
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...

2016 General Appropriations Bill

23 November 2015, Comment are Off
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...

Extending the Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (ACEF)

23 September 2015, Comment are Off
Mr. President: The Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund or ACEF traces its genesis to our ascension to the World Trade Organization. When the gospel of globalization made the world flat, and the world started chanting,” I believe in GATT, the treaty almighty, creator of...

4Ps Parent Leaders Congress & the conferring of “Batangas Adopted Daughter” award to DSWD Sec. Dinky Soliman

18 September 2015, Comment are Off
Mga kapwa kawani sa gobyerno, mga kapwa ko Batangueño, mga panauhin, mga kaibigan, mga mahal kong kababayan: Alam po natin na madalas tayong dapuan ng kalamidad. At hindi lang ordinaryong mga sakuna, pang-world record pa. Pinakamalakas na bagyo sa kasaysayan, pinakamatinding...

Sponsorship Speech on Senate Bill No. 2879

08 September 2015, Comment are Off
Mr. President: If people will be quizzed on what’s that government building along East Avenue in Quezon City with so much money, those in the know will most probably answer: the Central Bank Mint. But there’s another office across it that is also awash with cash – the Social...

Co-Sponsorship Speech on Person with Disabilities (SB No. 2890)

10 August 2015, Comment are Off
It has been said that a government’s greatness is measured “by how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” The same test...

Pinoy Worldwide Initiative for Investment, Savings and Entrepreneurship (Pinoy WISE) Overseas Filipinos Market Place Event

22 June 2015, Comment are Off
Centro Congresi Stella Polare Milan, Italy Buongiorno a tutti voi. Sono felice di essere qui oggi. Ma nessuno è più felice di mia moglie. Perché mentre io vedo questo viaggio come ufficialmente puro lavoro, lei la vede come la nostra seconda luna di miele. E questa è la ragione...

117th Philippine Independence Day Celebration

17 June 2015, Comment are Off
Plaza La Independencia, Lipa City Magandang umaga po sa inyong lahat. Ang Lipa at ang buong Batangas ay duyan ng magiting. Sino mang may duda ay kailangan lamang titigan ang ating bandila, at tingnan ang kanyang araw, sapagkat ang isa sa walong silahis ay kumakatawan sa isa sa...

Claro M. Recto District Hospital Inauguration

12 June 2015, Comment are Off
Magandang umaga po sa inyong lahat. Meron pong kasabihan na kung ano pa ang maganda ay s’yang malayo, at kung ano pa ang kanais-nais ay s’yang mahirap abutin. Ganyan po ang napakagandang bayan ng Infanta. Siguro iniluklok ito dito upang pawiin ang pagod ng sinumang dumayo para...