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The Senate has erected a “do not plunder” sign in the P20 billion fund to rehabilitate Yolanda-hit and quake-damaged areas in the Visayas. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said that a special provision of the P20 billion budget for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction

Metro Manila residents welcome with a sigh of relief the Supreme Court TRO on the Meralco increase in power rates. But why single out Meralco? Hindi naman ito lang ang nagtaas ng singil na kuryente. Coops across Luzon also did. So if temporary reprieve was given to Meralco

Nang humingi ang National Bureau of Investigation(NBI) ng kulang-kulang P1 bilyong pisong budget para sa taong ito, P940 million to be exact, nangako itong i-proseso ang NBI clearance sa loob lamang ng 10 minuto. This is the promissory note it issued to the Congress and to the

Malacanang has been urged to submit its “electric bills” to Congress as soon as possible so that legislation needed to prevent power price spikes and blackouts in the future can be hammered out. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said Energy officials should be “burning the

Statement of Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto I rechanneled my PDAF to the Calamity Fund It is of public record that I requested that the P200 million in PDAF earmarked for my office be realigned to the Calamity Fund so it can be used to help Yolanda victims. When

Now that the 2014 national budget has been signed into law, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto wants the Budget department to publicize the “promissory notes” agencies have issued in exchange for receiving taxpayer’s money. Among the “performance guarantees” embedded in the

With one vehicular accident occurring every seven minutes in Metro Manila alone, a senator has called for the “wise utilization” of the portion of the multibillion-peso road user’s tax collection earmarked by law for road safety. By Senator Ralph G. Recto’s calculation, about

Government should treat the estimated P77 billion coco levy fund as “the low hanging fruit” that can be picked to help thousands of coconut farmers whose livelihood was “blown away by Yolanda,” Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto said today. Describing it as “frozen like a

Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph G. Recto has filed a measure seeking to increase the cap imposed by law on the amount of 13th Month Pay, Christmas bonus and other benefits exempted from income tax. Present laws exclude the mandated 13th Month Pay and the Christmas bonus from