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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

SPONSORSHIP SPEECH ON THE PAGASA MODERNIZATION ACT by Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto In one sentence, this bill is about giving hope to PAGASA. Whether we live in a place that sizzles in May or is submerged in water in July, we rely on the Philippine Atmospheric,...