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President Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) promises should find expression in the 2017 national budget “because without funding, they will remain as empty pledges,” Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said. “Rhetoric must be translated to reality and the way to do it...

Senator Ralph Recto said the Freedom of Information (FOI) order signed by President Duterte today should cut red tape in public offices and lead to “shorter periods and simpler processes” in accessing government services. “There’s one important benchmark by which this FOI order...

Like any maiden SONA, I expect it to be more of a “looking forward” than a “looking back” speech, more of what to do and not on what has been done. So this SONA is about Setting the National Agenda, and Stating the Nation’s Aspirations. It is fair to say that what the people...

Latest government figures show that government drug purchases translate to P73 per capita annually, underscoring the need for the state lottery income to augment the state’s measly medicine budget. “It comes up to 20 centavos per Filipino a day,” Senator Ralph Recto said in...

It has been four months since the signing of the law expanding the tax breaks and other benefits for persons with disabilities (PWDs) and its Senate principal author is asking the responsible agencies to speed up the release of the law’s implementing rules and regulations (IRR...

With the Supreme Court’s dismissal of the charges against former President Arroyo for illegally diverting PCSO funds, Senator Ralph Recto has filed bills in the Senate placing state lottery income “beyond the reach of the most powerful person in the land” by earmarking it for...

With the country’s outstanding debt hitting P5.9 trillion in 2015, Senator Ralph Recto has filed a bill capping government’s indebtedness at 50 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Recto said a mandatory debt cap is needed as “uncontrolled public debt can...

Why spend more than P1 billion a month for electricity use of national government agencies when such can be reduced by tapping abundant solar power? This possibility was raised by Senator Ralph Recto in a bill requiring government agencies to spearhead the use of renewable energy...