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The proposed 2020 national budget must comply with the Road Board abolition law, which requires all projects funded by motor registration fees be specified in the annual General Appropriations Act (GAA).  Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto reminded the executive to

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has filed a bill raising the public school teacher’s “chalk allowance” to P10,000 a year.  The present rate of what is officially called “Teaching Supplies Allowance” is P3,500, which Recto said won’t buy teachers “a shopping cart of

Isko Moreno is the glowing “Exhibit A” of the reality that many of the country’s problems can be solved without having to rewrite the Constitution.  A change of plans, vision and management style will do wonders and spark change immediately, rather than the untested benefits

The Senate review on the 2020 national budget proposal of the Duterte administration will include “a scrutiny on how fast agencies are hiring teachers, policemen, and health personnel,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said.  While lawmakers traditionally focus “on

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has built 82 evacuation centers in 52 provinces and 55 more are underway, drawing praise from a senator who also suggested that it be expanded into a “one town, one evacuation center” program. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph

The Senate is backing government plan to run after tens of thousands of Chinese workers in the country who have not been paying income tax.  Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said there should be no “great wall” that protects imported Chinese labor from paying a tax

Government buildings now consume at least P24 billion worth of electricity a year, an amount that is growing by P1 billion annually, prompting Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto to file a bill calling for the installation of solar power systems in public buildings. Recto

Press Statement of Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto I salute Senator, now Secretary Greg Honasan, a Senate classmate for 15 years, in his new job as head of the DICT. Knowing him to be mission-oriented, I am confident that he will be time-on-target in completing the

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has refiled his “One Town, One Doctor” bill, a novel scholarship program in which government funds the schooling of one medical student from a town – on the condition that when he becomes a doctor, he will serve his town for four years.