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Press Release 29 April 2023 The P249 million the Land Transportation Office (LTO) needs for it to buy 5.2 million plastic driver’s license cards is what the agency earns “in a mere three and half days,” House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said. “Hindi kakulangan ng pera ang dahilan,

Press Release 20 April 2023 President Marcos Jr. should certify as urgent the House bill extending the deadline of the estate tax amnesty for another two years, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said. Recto said people will “save billions while government will earn billions” by

Press Release 17 April 2023 It is not yet late for the government to turn the Mindoro oil spill as site of an “environmental Balikatan” where even nations at loggerheads with each other, like the U.S. and China, can “work together in fighting a real ecological disaster instead of

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝟏𝟔 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 Police officers who participate in drug busts must be made to wear body cameras, so that a video recording of the operation will aid in prosecuting suspects, commend deserving officers, and deter those caught, and their coddlers, from bribing their way

Press Release 13 April 2023 At least 2,189 new taxpayer-funded free medical education slots will open in the 2023-2024 school year, raising the number of “Doktor Para Sa Bayan” scholars to a “brigade size” 3,600, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said. “This is a 150% increase. We

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝟏𝟏 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑  As the country braces for the return of El Nino, President Marcos Jr. should lead in the upgrading of the RAIN or “Roadmap to Address the Impact of El Nino” so that the weather phenomenon will not seriously harm the country’s food,

Press Release 10 April 2023 President Marcos Jr.’s first social legislation will free 610,000 farmers from debts owed in acquiring agrarian reform lands whose combined area of more 1.17 million hectares is 277 times the size of Manila, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said today.

Press Release 15 March 2023 Government collects more than P380 billion a year from crude oil and petroleum products, a fraction of which can be used to finance the clean-up of the Mindoro oil spill and indemnify impacted coastal residents, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto sai

Press Release 13 March 2023 As farmgate prices of onion plummet, House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto believes government officials can find funds for the building of cold storages with the same creativity that that they are raising capital for the Maharlika Fund. “If they boast they

Press Release 10 March 2023 President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s plan to kick-start 194 high impact projects worth P9 trillion “is the forward-thinking needed to erase the infrastructure backlog,” House Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto said. “That is grand vision on the infrastructure side