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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...

Privilege Speech Delivered by Sen. Ralph G. Recto Mr. President, my dear colleagues, magandang hapon. Clearly, I am the national punching bag of the week. And I am not surprised. Because if you are head of the Ways and Means committee, expect to be pilloried and never be praised....

Sponsorship Speech of Sen. Ralph G. Recto on SB No. 3299 Under Committee Report No. 411 Committee on Ways and Means Mr. President : No Senate was ever a bulwark of taxation. This one has never been. To every overture of a new tax, its reply has never been of ratification but of...

SPONSORSHIP SPEECH ON PROPOSED SENATE RESOLUTION NO.  840 A RESOLUTION HONORING AND COMMENDING THE TEN OUTSTANDING TEACHERS OF 2012 AWARDED BY THE METROBANK FOUNDATION, INC. FOR THEIR EXEMPLARY COMPETENCE, DEDICATION TO SERVICE, AND COMMITMENT IN PROVIDING QUALITY EDUCATION. By:...

Sen. Ralph G. Recto’s Sponsorship Speech on the Proposed 2012 General Appropriations Act  Mr. President: Before I dwell on some specifics of next year’s budget, let me take a great leap backward and discuss some details of the national budget 100 years ago. Although a...

Sponsorship Speech On GSIS Members’ Rights and Benefits Act of 2011 (Senate Bill No. 2854, under Committee Report No. 41) By Sen. Ralph G. Recto Chairman, Committee on Government Corporations and Public Enterprises Mr. President: Every month, the Senate forks over to its landlord...