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A bill conferring lifetime validity on a birth certificate and mandating government agencies to accept a birth certificate regardless of when it was issued has been filed in the Senate. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said he introduced the measure to end the practice of...

A debt cap bill has been filed in the Senate, setting national indebtedness at an amount not more than 50 percent of the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Its author, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, said the cap will not “handcuff the government” from securing...

Government should consider Social Welfare Attaches (SWAs) as “priority hires” as there is currently only one for every 623,561 overseas Filipinos—the smallest employee-to-clientele ratio in public service today, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said.  Recto said...

Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) lands will remain a “5-6 paradise” unless roadblocks that prevent them from being used as collaterals for production loans from formal sources are lifted, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. Recto said the free and speedy...

With the number of dengue cases in the first half of 2019 double of what was reported in the same period last year, screened windows and doors should be included in the specifications of public classrooms to be built. “Kung ayaw nating madapuan ng lamok ang ating mga anak sa...

A bill condoning all the debts farmers incurred in owning lands under the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) has been filed in the Senate. Filed by Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, the measure seeks the write-off of all unpaid amortizations,...

The proposed 2020 national budget must comply with the Road Board abolition law, which requires all projects funded by motor registration fees be specified in the annual General Appropriations Act (GAA).  Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto reminded the executive to...

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has filed a bill raising the public school teacher’s “chalk allowance” to P10,000 a year.  The present rate of what is officially called “Teaching Supplies Allowance” is P3,500, which Recto said won’t buy teachers “a shopping cart of...