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    "id": 593303,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of legislation and the business of the House should be organized in such a way as to give utmost priority to legislation because that is our core function. These Motions, important as they are, should take second place and I am not belittling them. I am saying this because after a long struggle, my Bill on County Attorneys, has seen the light of day although it meant sitting here up to 6.30 p.m. for two weeks. I would urge the Rules and Business Committee, now that we are coming to the end of the year, to organize and give priority to passing of legislation. There is a time the Rules and Business Committee was complaining that we do not have enough draft Bills but we now have quite a number and people are complaining that we are not legislating. Could we now give priority to enacting those legislations? The other issue is timing. I remember in the Eleventh and Eighth Parliament, Question Time was limited to one hour; by 3.30 p.m. the House went into other business and if there are Questions remaining, they were postponed to another day. Any Question on the Floor of the House would not take more than five minutes. The Speaker would enforce that rule very strictly. What I have discovered here is that Question Time and Statements normally end at about 5.00 p.m. Therefore, we only have one and a half hours of business."
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