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Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is supporting the country’s “pivot” to a wider global market in sourcing military material, but reminded Malacañang not to bypass local industries which can provide parts or whole of the defense equipment being sought. Recto said President...

If CCTVs are now being trained on government office workers, work on critical government infrastructure can also be livestreamed. Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said one way to speed up the completion of traffic jam-causing road constructions is to install a camera which...

2017 OFW aid fund is ‘mere 4 hours’ worth of OFW remittances’ While earnings remittances of Overseas Filipino Workers have grown by 12.3 percent since 2013, or to $28.48 billion by end of 2015, the proposed budget of two diplomatic funds to assist OFWs in distress...

Mary Jane Veloso was not a drug lord. She was not even a user. On the contrary, she was used to smuggle drugs without her knowledge. She was going to Indonesia to work as maid, not knowing that she was already a mule. If she was a conscious, willing participant in transporting...

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is seeking today the condonation of all unpaid amortizations of agrarian reform beneficiaries, saying such a move will not only spare farmers from piling debts but also spur agricultural productivity all over the country. Recto urged President...

The Senate minority will push for the restoration of the P800 million cut in the 2017 budget for feeding programs for malnourished children and the tripling of the budget per meal to P30. Minority Leader Ralph Recto said he will also demand assurance that the incompetence shown...

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is urging the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to include in its P1.15 trillion wish list of traffic solutions the purchase of ambulances and tow trucks “so that emergency teams could rush to accident sites to help victims and clear traffic...

While gains have been made in cutting teacher and classroom shortages, focus should now shift to addressing the lack of water, sanitation and electricity in thousands of public schools, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said. With one in four schools without clean water and one...