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Press Release Office of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 6 September 2022 Four QC-based specialty hospitals face subsidy cuts Four Quezon City-based specialty hospitals are facing budget cuts next year,” all deep and none superficial,” Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto...

Press Release Office of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 5 September 2022 14,208 new cops next year must respond to 911 call in 15 minutes max The PNP plans to “hire, arm and deploy” 14,208 new officers next year, joining a   force whose leadership has...

Press Statement of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 2 September 2022 ’Budget Errata’ can cure Unprogrammed Fund gray areas We look forward to DBM’s submission of the details of the Unprogrammed Appropriations (UA). As I have said many times, the...

Press Release Office of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 30 August 2022 PS-DBM’s twin, PITC, with P14 B in undelivered orders, must be reformed, too The PS-DBM’s “controversial twin”, the Philippine International Trading Corp., should also be “disenfranchised as a...

Press Release Office of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 27 August 2022 Unprogrammed fund bloats actual budget by half-trillion, ‘588  billion shades of grey’ must be itemized The proposed national budget for 2023 is actually P5.856...

House leaders join the administration’s economic team for a breakfast hosted by Speaker Martin Romualdez before the official start this morning of the  month-long House hearings on the proposed P5.268 trillion national budget of the Marcos administration for 2023....

Press Release Office of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 23 August 2022 DSWD, a big ATM – Ayuda, Tulong Machine – has smallest regular staff of 2,993 The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s flawed aid distribution to indigent students was a “teachable...

Press Statement of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto When it comes to public spending, the problem is not in budget authorization, or when Congress approves the budget, but in budget execution, when agencies spend the budget given to them. The budget is supposed to...

WATER PHILIPPINES EXPO & CONFERENCE 2015 Securing, Shaping and Greening Our Water Future Through Innovation Magandang umaga po sa inyong lahat. Some of us today may have skipped breakfast, but I know that there were four things we surely did this morning: Drank water, brushed...

Senate Bill No. 2686 Committee Report 113 Mr. President, my dear colleagues: This bill about broadband is not only being pushed by a broad band of groups, but has also benefited from their inputs which were gathered from many meetings. I have to stress the crowdsourcing way by...

There are two recommended ways of authorizing the management of coconut levy assets. First is via the executive route, where a factotum who cannot probably distinguish a palmera from a coconut tree will draft an order for the President’s consideration. The other is through...

Committee Report No. 104  Tax Incentives Management and Transparency Act (TIMTA) You know that a bill is attracting interest when you begin your sponsorship speech not with the details of the measure but with a disclaimer. This bill will not appropriate tax incentives availed; it...

“Para Sa Batang Pinoy” 2015 National Congress on Oral Health for Filipino Children Philippine Pediatric Dental Society, Inc. Thank you for that kind introduction. Magandang umaga po sa inyong lahat. I am supposed to be in a meeting that will establish the Mamasapano...

1st General Membership Meeting INFOCOMM TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES (ITAP) Thank you for that kind introduction, even if midway through your spiel, I was wondering if you were describing me or someone else. When I got hold of your invite, the first impression that...

Co-Sponsorship Speech on SB No. 2518, CR No. 94 On the Condonation of Tax Liabilities of Water Districts Local Water Districts A typical Pinoy uses 180 liters of water daily – largely because he bathes twice, and she thrice a day. This comes up to a per capita water consumption...

Sponsorship Speech on the 2015 National Budget One hundred years ago the national budget was less than 30 pages long, that when folded, members of the Philippine legislature can carry it around in their pocket. Today, budget documents are hauled by forklifts and sent to Congress...