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Because lack of transportation or high fares is a leading cause of school absences, government must include bicycles for poor kids in its education shopping cart, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said today. Recto said there is already funding for the purchase of “bancas...

Senator Salonga was sui generis, a class of his own. Any senator who serves in the Senate will have to be measured by the Salonga standard. This titan of nationalism left giant footprints which have impacted our nation for good. I respectfully suggest that with the family’s...

Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto today called on Malacañang to expedite the signing into law of a recently-approved bill creating the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), saying the country needs “Special Action Forces” in cyberspace...

Six hundred thousand pieces of imported car plates would not have passed through the port of Manila, where Customs officials seized them, if they were only manufactured locally. Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto cited the above case in underscoring the need for government...

The distribution of women’s “dignity kits” during disasters and emergencies is now mandatory, pursuant to a Department of Health (DOH) order released last month, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said today. The kit must contain 22 items of women’s personal care,...

Government will only have to shell out P9.1 billion – or equivalent to its water, power and gasoline expenses in six months – to make public colleges tuition-free, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said. “The numbers show that it is attainable and affordable,” Recto sai...

Not all is lost for the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) bill, as there is a three-week post-election window in which the Senate can pass the measure institutionalizing a program all presidential candidates have agreed must be strengthened, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto...

To thank them for their services, government should waive vehicle registration fees of volunteer-owned firetrucks and place the brave men manning them under PhilHealth insurance, Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto proposed today. This, as Recto called on the national...