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    "id": 1008055,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "the President, as contained in the Memorandum, to the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning for consideration. I am informed that the Committee is ready to table its Report on the said Reservations this afternoon. The Report will ease the process of reconsideration of the Bill in the Committee of the whole House later during this Sitting. Hon. Members, may I, at this point, remind the House of the Speaker’s Communication of July 28, 2015 concerning the consideration of the President’s reservations to a Bill and amendments thereto. I particularly draw your attention to my guidance, that the voting threshold for the passage of amendments proposed by a Committee or an individual Member that have the effect of fully accommodating the President’s reservations is a simple majority as contemplated under Article 122(1) of the Constitution as read together with Article 115(2)(a). On the other hand, an amendment that does not fully accommodate the President’s reservations or, indeed, one that has the effect of a total override of the President’s reservations, including negating his proposed text, would require a two-thirds voting threshold to be passed in keeping with the provisions of Article 115(4) of the Constitution."
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