Deputy Speaker and Batangas 6th District Rep. Ralph Recto on Wednesday, Aug. 10, called on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to dismantle the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and the Philippine International Trading Corp. (PITC) for their involvement in anomalous...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez and other members of the Congress paid their last respects to the late former president Fidel V. Ramos on Thursday, Aug. 4. House Speaker Martin Romualdez visits wake of FVR. (Photo courtesy of Romualdez’s office) Today is the first day of the viewing of Ramos’...
Batangas Rep. Ralph Recto on Monday, Aug. 1, stressed that the “powers and functions” should come first in the consideration of creating a new disaster response agency instead of its official name. Batangas Rep. Ralph Recto (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) “I think signage is the least...
Lawmakers on Sunday, July 31, paid tribute to former President Fidel V. Ramos who died at the age of 94, with Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto of Batangas 6th District calling him “Steady Eddie” who steered the Philippines to economic development at a time of great crisis in the early 1990s. Former...
Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto has been elected as the seventh deputy speaker in the House of Representatives this 19th Congress. Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto (Facebook) House Speaker Martin Romualdez momentarily presided over the session Wednesday afternoon to facilitate Recto's election....
Batangas 6th district Rep. Ralph Recto is worried that the available National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund (NDRRMF), otherwise known as the calamity fund, may be "insufficient for rehabilitation work". The damage caused by the July 27, 2022 earthquake in Abra "We are just in the...
Lawmakers, led by Ilocos Norte 1st District Rep. Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos, believe that Leyte 1st District Rep. Martin Romualdez is the “most qualified” to lead the House of Representatives in the 19th Congress. House Speaker Martin Romualdez (FILE PHOTO/MANILA BULLETIN) This was...
Vice President and Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sara Duterte and Batangas 6th District Representative Ralph Recto on Wednesday, July 20, discussed the problems that the education sector is facing. Ralph Recto (FACEBOOK) These include, "reforms needed to improve the quality of education...
Several senators are now slowly moving out of their offices at the Senate complex in Pasay city as their terms expire on June 30. Outgoing Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III said his taking out of his personal effects at his Senate office does not hurt as he looks at the transition from a high...
Detained Senator Leila de Lima on Friday said she is grateful to her colleague, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, for asking the incoming Marcos administration to free her. De Lima, a vocal critic of the Duterte administration, said she is humbled by Recto’s kind remarks during his...
Outgoing Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto on Friday, June 3 said the economic team of President-elect Ferdinand ‘’Bongbong’’ R. Marcos Jr. is what the market might rate “premium investment grade Recto, described by his colleagues in the 24-member Senate as the...
Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto on Wednesday, June 1 called on the incoming administration of President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. to help free Senator Leila de Lima whom he said is a “feisty lady worthy of our respect.” Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto...
