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Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro ManilaEighteenth CongressSecond Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand twenty. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11519] AN ACT EXTENDING THE AVAILABILITY OF APPROPRIATIONS

An Act Providing For Additional Mechanisms To Accelarate The Recovery And Bolster The Resiliency Of The Philippine Economy, Providing Funds Therefor And For Other Purposes This bill, otherwise known as the Bayanihan to Rebuild as One Act, aims to provide P485 Billion to

An Act Extending The Availability Of The 2020 Appropriations To December 31, 2021, Amending For The Purpose Section 60 Of The General Provisions Of Republic Act No. 11465, The General Appropriations Act Of Fiscal Year 2020 This bill seeks to extend the availability of

An Act Extending The Availability Of Selected Appropriations In The General Appropriations Act Of 2020 And The Bayanihan To Recover As One Act Under Republic Act Numbers 11465 And 11494, Respectively, As Well As The Corresponding Allotments Intended As Response And Recovery

The temporary absence of Red Cross testing distorts the national COVID picture. One in four RT-PCR tests is done by the PNRC. The absence of PNRC deflates the infection rate, making any dip in the reported number of verified cases an artificial decline. If PNRC stops testing

Delivered by Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto 21 October 2020 Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to be with you today – even though I was given 20 minutes to discuss a raft of bills which has taken us hundreds of hours to deliberate. Imposing that cap on a politician is

Late is better than zero. Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto is pressing anew the DSWD to distribute the balance of P10 billion from what Congress has authorized in the second Bayanihan Law as cash aid to pandemic-affected families. “If under the worst case scenario it can

EXPLANATION OF VOTE Bicameral Conference Committee report on the disagreeing provisions of SBN 1564 and HBN 6953: Bayanihan to Recover As One Act Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto 20 August 2020 Mr. President:  How I wish we could report back a pandemic response

Republic of the PhilippinesCongress of the PhilippinesMetro ManilaEighteenth CongressSecond Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand twenty. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11494] AN ACT PROVIDING FOR COVID-19 RESPONSE AND RECOVERY

Senator Ralph Recto discusses the problems hounding the PhilHealth. “It is unfortunate that PhilHealth is imploding in the midst of the pandemic,” he said. Given the limited budget, Recto said the government should beef up our health frontline by hiring more health workers,