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The Senate is backing government plan to run after tens of thousands of Chinese workers in the country who have not been paying income tax.  Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said there should be no “great wall” that protects imported Chinese labor from paying a tax...

Government buildings now consume at least P24 billion worth of electricity a year, an amount that is growing by P1 billion annually, prompting Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto to file a bill calling for the installation of solar power systems in public buildings. Recto...

Press Statement of Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto I salute Senator, now Secretary Greg Honasan, a Senate classmate for 15 years, in his new job as head of the DICT. Knowing him to be mission-oriented, I am confident that he will be time-on-target in completing the...

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has refiled his “One Town, One Doctor” bill, a novel scholarship program in which government funds the schooling of one medical student from a town – on the condition that when he becomes a doctor, he will serve his town for four years....

With the recent signing into law of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto called on officials of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to “craft a responsive and relevant” implementing rules and regulations (IRR)...

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said the Senate probe into the “poaching or export of sand and other landfill materials” should cover not only the reported sand dredging in Batangas “but similar cases in other parts of the country.” Recto said he will a file resolution...

I support the call of Budget Secretary Ben Diokno to exempt infrastructure projects from the election period ban on certain activities. In fact, the Senate version of the 2019 national budget contains this General provision which I sponsored: “Notwithstanding the provisions of...

The Senate-approved bill institutionalizing the state’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) program carries provisions which “shield it from epal politics, prioritize farmers and fishermen, reward work equity, link it to livelihood programs,” Sen. Ralph Recto said. “This is not...