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    "id": 1397336,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1397336/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 16 of the Bill be amended— (a) in sub-clause (1) by inserting the words “with the written permission of the Speakers of the National Assembly and the Senate” immediately after the word “may”; (b) by inserting the following new sub-clauses immediately after sub- clause (1)— “(1A) The quorum of a joint sitting shall be a third of its members from the National Assembly and a third of its members from the Senate. (1B) Unless a decision is reached by consensus, any vote to be taken in a joint sitting shall be by separate Houses.” The rationale is to require committees of the two Houses to hold a joint sitting to obtain the permission of both Speakers, (not to do it on their own motion) and to set the quorum requirements and modalities of conducting a vote in a joint sitting of the committees. Each House will have to vote separately. Therefore, we will not have the House with the majority number of Members carrying the day to the disadvantage of the House with lesser Members."
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