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    "id": 1043485,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1043485/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As I second, this is a procedural matter. We have a Motion and the relevant committee of this House, with your direction, may resume its sittings earlier than the House in mid-January. This is to allow the relevant committee to deal with this Bill by doing public participation. By the time we resume in February, we will have an opportunity to dispense with it at the Second Reading and at the Committee of the whole House stages. I advise the Leader of the Majority Party and the Clerk of the National Assembly not to only reduce the publication period of Government Bills. You know, now I am on the other side and I want to speak for the back benchers. I have a Bill in the pipeline. Moving forward, as we reduce the publication period of Government Bills, let us also look at Private Members’ Bills that can get the same exemption. There will be no harm because our system is a presidential system of Government and Private Members’ Bills can be sent to committees. This is an important Bill. We have the Business Laws (Amendment) Act which has helped Kenyans in terms of ease of doing business. This Bill will tighten it up. I want to agree with the Leader of the Majority Party on this Procedural Motion of reducing the publication period of the Business Laws (Amendment) (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 50 of 2020) from 14 days to 8 days. I second."
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