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Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today said that the Senate bill on rice tariffication mandates that all duties collected from imported rice be plowed back to farmers through “a raft of assistance in the form of equipment, insurance, credit, and even direct financi...

The return of the bells restores a severed historical connection between a proud people and their brave forebears. After more than a century, the descendants will now be able to hear the bells which summoned their ancestors to prayers, to safety, to work, and to the defense of...

K to 12’s problem “is not legal, but logistical,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said today as he urged the government to move on to address backlogs in the delivery of school facilities upon which the success of the said education reform hinges. Recto made the...

As the latest SWS survey reported close to 10 million Filipinos jobless last September, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has called on government to attach a “jobs odometer” to the P3.757 trillion 2019 national budget and pursue other measures to reduce unemployment. And...

Greg is a silent workhorse in a chamber of showhorses. He has always been after good policies not after good publicity. I was the principal author of the law creating the DICT, the modernization of PAGASA and free WiFi, and I can attest that while he gave valuable inputs, he did...

“This is one of the rare times that “the best and the brightest“ rule in presidential appointments has been followed. If diplomacy is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip, Teddy Boy has this skill in abundance. Rarely can you...

I will be introducing a bill that will repeal Republic Act 10912, or the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Law. Like many pieces of legislation, its intention was good, but not its implementation. It is not the first time that what was appealing in theory, failed in...

“Tax on vices to fund virtue of health-for-all” Multiple sources of finances underpin the Senate-approved Universal Health Care (UHC) bill so that its many mandates will not go unfunded, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. Among government revenues that will be...