OVER the weekend, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon urged members of both houses of Congress to work quickly to pass vital measures in the few remaining legislative days left before the long preelection recess. This was certainly a good call on Drilon's part, but among the measures he listed on lawmakers' critical "to-do list," he omitted the most important one: Senate ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which went into effect on January 1.

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