RECTO DELIVERS CO-SPONSORSHIP SPEECH ON 2014 BUDGET: Senator Ralph Recto delivers his co-sponsorship speech on the 2014 General Appropriations Bill during plenary session Tuesday, November 19. In the wake of the series of calamities that hit the country in the past thirty days, Recto urged for the reallocation of funds for disaster response in the 2014 national budget such as the mobilization of a portion of the P70 billion Coco Levy Fund for the rehabilitation of coconut and other farmlands, and the utilization of the Malampaya Fund for the restoration of power in storm-damaged areas, among others. (PRIB Photo by Alex Nuevaespaña)