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    "id": 1106419,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to give a little bit of input on the Communication. This is a very important issue because we have a lot of business, but one of the businesses that we have is to push Bills. We are going through many of the Bills for the second time, and we need to push them really fast. Every time this issue is spoken to, we tend to focus on the absence of the Sponsors. I just want to highlight that many times we have been in this House, we find that the Sponsors are in the House, but sometimes the business comes so much later. I do not mean to demean Statements because they are very important. We might want to organize ourselves, as a House that, say maybe on Tuesdays, we just delve straight into the many Bills that are waiting on the Order Paper. We can give a special day to Bills. We could have Statements on Wednesday. Whichever way, but we can have one day that is dedicated to legislative business. Immediately after the preliminary orders, we go straight away. My observation is that many of the Sponsors tend to remain in the House for quite long, until they realize that their business might not be executed on that day. They leave, and that is maybe when the order comes. We might want to systematize ourselves as far as Statements and legislative proposals are concerned. In the Committee on Education, where I sit, we continue to look at legislative business to ensure that we run it out of the House. I have a feeling that many other Committees are doing the same thing. I think the issue is right here in the House. If we"
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