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    "id": 1156186,
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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 Sixth Session is the shortest session, yet we have a lot of business pending. I urge Senators wherever they may be to take the business of the House seriously because we have 17 Bills at Second Reading and 11 Bills at the Committee of the Whole stage. More importantly, there are the Petitions and Statements, which we have not dispensed with. Our Standing Orders are very clear on the Petitions, which should be replied to within 60 days. This is an area we have not been doing well. Hardly has any committee submitted its Petition report on time. Some have rolled over into different sessions. I know we have some in the committees I sit in that up to now have not been dealt with. In as much as it is the campaign period, we need to make sure the efforts we have put in Bills are realized by being concluded. We need to avail ourselves for the divisions. We know that most of these Bills might lapse with this Senate. If not so, we know the tradition of the other House, where our Bills are delayed. That might make this legislative exercise futile if we do not fast-track. If we delay our own Bills, we will be doing disservice to ourselves by not making sure whatever we do reaches its logical conclusion. I urge Members to avail themselves, so that we dispense, from our end, the businesses that have been pending, especially on divisions."
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