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    "id": 101069,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ogindo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 120,
        "legal_name": "Martin Otieno Ogindo",
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    "content": "First of all, I want to congratulate this House for having passed the Fiscal Management Act. In passing the Fiscal Management Act, this House sought to reform the Budgeting process and the time taken to approve the Budget. The President assented to this Act. Today, this Act is operational. If you allow me to read, Section 9(1) of this Act, says:- “The Minister shall, not later than 20th June of each year, lay before the National Assembly, the annual estimate of revenue and expenditure for the succeeding financial year”. Section 10(1) says:- “Upon being laid before the National Assembly, the annual estimates shall stand committed to the respective departmental committees according to their jurisdictions.” (2) Each departmental Committee shall consider, discuss and review the estimates apportioned to it in subsection (1) and submit its report thereon to the National Assembly within twenty-one days after the estimates were first laid before the national Assembly. (3) A departmental committee shall, in considering the departmental votes assigned to it under this section, consult with the Minister responsible for the Vote under consideration by the departmental committee.” Section 11 says:- “Without prejudice to the generality of section 10, in preparing the final estimates of revenue and expenditure referred to in sub-section 9(1), the Minister shall take into consideration comments and recommendations of the relevant committee as submitted to the National Assembly under section 10(2).”"
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