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    "id": 1023051,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1023051/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. On the issue of the disorganisation in the Senate, I commented on my Facebook profile and I will not do so here because we all have different miens. Having said that, I only have two suggestions. You have already talked about one of them, namely, that the Procedure and House Rules Committee needs to come up with a procedure for co-sponsorship of Bills. Already in the Committee, we were confronted with three Bills that are similar, namely, the Public Participation Bill, the Healthcare Bill and the Community Health Workers Bill. If we co-sponsor, it means that a Bill will emanate from here and the other person in the other House will have it. That will deal with those bottlenecks. Secondly, the other issue that we need to deal with is also an amendment to our own Standing Orders and concurrent amendments to their Standing Orders so that the process of declaration of money Bills becomes very clear. I have Bills which I am waiting for and they have to go to the Budget and Appropriations Committee because they are money Bills. The Senate Bills should concurrently have the same process even before they go for their First or Second Readings to stop wastage. There is the Reproductive Healthcare Bill. I do not know if it will be declared a money Bill when it comes here. It is now undergoing the second public participation. It will undergo another public participation here and we will have wasted money. I was about to let go of my Bill because of the other one. It will die there and here as well. We have spoken about this for very long. If the Procedure and House Rules Committee can take up those two issues, it will sort this out."
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