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    "id": 1013635,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "This petition brings us back to the question of who is supposed to handle the review of boundaries of counties. A commission set up by Parliament should have resolved boundary disputes between counties. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. drafted the County Boundaries Bill, 2017, which I am surprised is being referred to as a money Bill. It has become a practice of the National Assembly to refer to all Bills coming from the Senate as money Bills. Initially, they used to say the Senate only needs to process Bills that concern counties. The National Assembly has been shelving all the Bills from the Senate then allowing its Members to sponsor similar Bills. Members of the National Assembly are taking Bills done by Senators, deliberated and passed in this House word for word as their own Bills. Our colleagues in the National Assembly need to get serious because both the Senate and the National Assembly have the same mandate in under the Constitution, to make laws. That is why Bills come from one House to the other."
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