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With the third anniversary of the onslaught of Yolanda days away, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said reconstruction pace seems to crawl based on the low utilization of the P18.9 billion appropriated this year to repair damages wrought by the strongest typhoon in history.

The Calamity Fund posted an unspent balance of P37 billion as of August 31, foreclosing the need to solicit foreign aid to help victims of typhoon Lawin, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto said today. “The challenge is to open the floodgates of domestic aid funds and not to ask

Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto is urging the Duterte administration “to hack away” at the red tape slowing down the flow of rehabilitation funds to disaster-hit areas. Recto said “complicated rules” governing the request, release and use of national calamity funds result in

It will be approved before the end of the year – Recto The Senate has started floor debates on a bill more than doubling the public school teacher’s yearly “chalk allowance” from P1,500 to P3,500. Sponsored on the floor last Wednesday, October 19, was Senate bill 812, which

Foreign policy rebalancing should not mean that we swing the pendulum to the other extreme, that we dump old friends for new suitors. We should practice big-tent diplomacy, welcoming all, and shunning no one. The national interest is served by extending amity to all, and

To borrow Kennedy, Senator Miriam’s mastery of the Constitution was awesome that when constitutional experts will be summoned to the Senate in the future, it can only be regarded as the greatest gathering of legal minds in one room, second only to the times when Senator

Alarmed by the worsening malnutrition problem among Filipino children, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto has proposed a comprehensive health and nutrition program that will provide protection and support for mothers and their children from conception to childhood. A lynchpin of

Malacanang was told to familiarize itself with the “anti-red tape and quick response” targets that its underlings have promised the  public in the 2017 national budget so it would know if pledges of fast document processing and rapid reaction to distress calls are being met. The

The country will observe the first official National Centenarians Day two Sundays from now, on October 2, but funds for cash gifts for 100-year-old Filipinos pursuant to a new law have not been included in the 2017 budget, prompting Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto to prod both