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Press Release Office of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 11 September 2022 Ranked last in reading, PH should end moratorium in building school libraries Government should resume building school libraries to improve student reading comprehension of which the...

Press Release Office of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 10 September 2022 High-yield state visits are critical missions to solve domestic problems President Marcos’ state visits yield investment pledges whose value is “thousands of times” the travel budget of...

Press Statement of Deputy Speaker and Batangas Rep. Ralph G. Recto 8 September 2022 Per DOH advice: Restore cancer funding as P1 B item in ’23 budget Restoring the cancer fund in the national budget is one doctor’s order we cannot ignore. And if it is the DOH Secretary...

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...

Co-Sponsorship Speech of Sen. Ralph G. Recto On the 2014 General Appropriations Bill Mr. President: This is an unconventional sponsorship speech but these are not ordinary times. When it comes to introducing the national budget, the parliamentary tradition is to rattle off a...

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...