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Increased defense spending should be accompanied by more purchases of locally-made defense and police equipment, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “There should be local dividends from the equipment shopping spree,” Recto said. He cited the quality of the products of...

Mag-di-Disyembre na, ni anino ng Salary Standardization Law V wala pa. Malamig na simoy ng hangin, wala pa rin ang panukala na nagtataas ng sahod ni titser ang ating naamoy. When will it come out of the Palace kitchen? “Please expedite” is not one marginal note we would like to...

Mr. John was a national flag carrier who planted Filipino greatness in other lands and in the minds of his people that yes, a poor promdi like him can. We can tally the jobs his business created, the taxes paid, and the earnings it generated, but the inspiration he gave our young...

Government should create a “digital map” of government projects and programs that will be implemented next year, to include “livestreaming” of big-ticket public works projects. “Projects should be geo-tagged, and there should be an app in which the status of a project is just a...

Government should end the scourge of “artificial spending” by preventing the transfer of allotments from one agency to another in order to cover up the failure to spend.Ang nangyayari kasi ngayon, para lang masabi na “obligated” na ang allotment ay pinapasa ito sa ibang ahensya....

While every literature states that P4.1 trillion is the national budget for 2020, in reality, it is not. The real amount is P4,316.3 trillion, P216.3 billion higher than what is commonly stated. The P216.3 billion represents the Unprogrammed Appropriations (UA). While the release...

DepEd’s school-building budget for 2020 should be augmented in the light of the damage sustained by the 500 classrooms and 700 school buildings during last month’s earthquakes in Southern Mindanao. Congress cannot be impervious to a tragedy which threatens the schooling of...

The Senate should conduct its own post-earthquake assessment – to find out if the Calamity Fund in this year’s budget and the one for next year is enough to help the people and places hit by the recent Southern Mindanao earthquakes. We should conduct an inventory of funds. There...