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Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto hailed President Duterte’s signing on Feb. 2 of the Free Irrigation Law, saying it should “open the floodgates of an irrigation building spree, which is needed for us to feed our growing number of people.” Republic Act 10969 grants free

Saying that the “law is in the details,” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today pressed the government to submit “the economic fine print” that will underpin the proposed Bangsamoro government’s fiscal autonomy. In a request coursed through Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri, Recto

Statement of Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto I support President Duterte’s pivot in Benham Rise. With the West Philippine Sea effectively fenced off, we have to look to the “east Philippine seas” for our food and fuel. If there’s an impregnable Great Wall of Sand from

The Department of Health has a P634 million advertising budget for this year, “which it should use to fight the fake news that all vaccines are bad.” The suggestion was made by Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, who said that the DOH’s “advertising war chest” is big enough

The Department of Foreign Affairs’ P1.2 billion help fund this year for its 8 million citizens abroad may not be enough to aid expatriate Filipinos in distress following President Duterte’s apparent “no OFW left behind” policy, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. Recto

Mayon’s eruption has again put on full display one constant in this calamity-prone land – of schoolchildren being the first collateral victims when their schools are commandeered to house refugees, a practice which can be stopped by building permanent evacuation centers. Senate

The Puno committee is a league of extraordinary gentlemen. It should be able to meet the people’s expectation of an output that is far from ordinary. The President is right in forming a study group on the Constitution whose members cannot be tempted to propose amendments tailored

Statement of Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto Government must exert all efforts in seeing to it that the fruit of the loot will not harm a single Filipino. Intelligence funds appropriated, which are in the billions of pesos, should be used to follow the money. If some

But wide gap still seen with entry of new vehicles Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto today welcomed the Supreme Court’s lifting of the Temporary Restraining Order on the distribution of 700,000 motor vehicle license plates but their eventual distribution “might be a case