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Press Release 26 July 2022 ‘As gov’t payroll surges to P1.4T, rightsizing should plug lack in critical personnel’ The plan to “right size” the bureaucracy will not slash the number of national government workers as the hiring of essential personnel, such as teachers and nurses,

Statement of Rep. Ralph G. Recto on President BBM’s SONA 25 July 2022 A data-driven SONA which paints the future using numbers – Recto It was a data-driven SONA. Others before him had used words to conjure the future. He painted it using numbers. And that makes his SONA

PRESS STATEMENTSenate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto03 June 2022 Marcos economic Cabinet group is ‘A-team, investment grade’ President-elect Marcos Jr.’s economic team is what the market might rate “premium investment grade.” Ben Diokno, Arsi Balisacan,

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said he will vote for the grant of the Senate Medal of Excellence to Nobel laureate Maria Ressa. Ms. Ressa’s Nobel satisfies all the conditions in the Senate resolution governing the conferment of the Senate honor, according to Recto. “But

The purchase of billions of pesos of PPEs, face shields and masks from China – when better quality locally-produced ones were available at a far lower price – underscores the need to restore the “Buy Filipino” provision in the national budget, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph

Scientists should not be muzzled during the pandemic as their views guide government in decision making, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. “We can’t contain the pandemic if we censor studies,” Recto said, referring to calls to stop the independent OCTA Research from

Malacañang should convene a task force, to include diplomats and Taipans, that will solve the shortage of Tocilizumab and other anti-pneumonia drugs made scarce by the surge in the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said it is ti

The Department of Health (DOH) is planning to buy 758,700 sets of personal protective equipment (PPE) next year at an average cost of P1,079 each, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. The P819 million needed for the purchase has been included in the 2022 national

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto welcomed the administration’s request for standby authority to buy as much as P45.4 billion worth of vaccine booster shots, should the same be needed next year. Recto said the amount is part of the P151.6 billion in unprogrammed funds in