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Magpa-Pasko na, wala pa ring implementing rules? Seven months after it was signed into law, Republic Act 10754, which grants persons with disabilities (PWDs) goods discounts and tax breaks, remains in limbo after the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) has yet to be issued...

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said he will “not oppose” President Duterte’s plan to “in effect, mothball the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA)” but the Philippines should be ready to “finance and fill” whatever “logistical void” is left by American troops. “The...

With the third anniversary of the onslaught of Yolanda days away, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said reconstruction pace seems to crawl based on the low utilization of the P18.9 billion appropriated this year to repair damages wrought by the strongest typhoon in history....

The Calamity Fund posted an unspent balance of P37 billion as of August 31, foreclosing the need to solicit foreign aid to help victims of typhoon Lawin, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said today. “The challenge is to open the floodgates of domestic aid funds and not to ask...

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is urging the Duterte administration “to hack away” at the red tape slowing down the flow of rehabilitation funds to disaster-hit areas. Recto said “complicated rules” governing the request, release and use of national calamity funds result in...

It will be approved before the end of the year – Recto The Senate has started floor debates on a bill more than doubling the public school teacher’s yearly “chalk allowance” from P1,500 to P3,500. Sponsored on the floor last Wednesday, October 19, was Senate bill 812, which...

Foreign policy rebalancing should not mean that we swing the pendulum to the other extreme, that we dump old friends for new suitors. We should practice big-tent diplomacy, welcoming all, and shunning no one. The national interest is served by extending amity to all, and...

To borrow Kennedy, Senator Miriam’s mastery of the Constitution was awesome that when constitutional experts will be summoned to the Senate in the future, it can only be regarded as the greatest gathering of legal minds in one room, second only to the times when Senator...