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    "id": 1003244,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1003244/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, let me also take this opportunity to thank the Committee on Finance and Planning for the wonderful exposition to the Finance Bill of 2020. As we have always stated everywhere, there is a typical cliché or slogan, \"no taxation without representation\". We, as Members of Parliament, have the sacred duty to ensure that any form of taxation that is imposed on the people of Kenya receive our attention and contribution. When the Finance Bill, 2020, was gazetted or printed, we, Members of Parliament, received many comments or requests to intervene from members of the public on principally three items. I am happy the Committee has been seized of those three items and I hope when we go to the Committee of the Whole House, we will be able to address those three issues. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the framers of the 2010 Constitution literally gave us freedom one way and curtailed it in another. The provisions of Article 114 relating to Money Bills says that before any amendment is made, it requires the concurrence of the Committee and that of the National Treasury literally limits the ability of Members of Parliament to play their constitutional role in making amendments to the Finance Bill or taxation measures at any time in the process. This is because it means if the National Treasury does not agree with you or if the Committee does not find merit in what you are proposing, however, meritorious it may be to the people of Kenya, those amendments are doomed. Perhaps, we might consider that debate when"
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