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    "id": 1522343,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1522343/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kangogo Bowen",
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    "content": "Articles 95 and 96 of the Constitution outline the roles of the National Assembly and Senate, but we do not see where the Senators fit into the budget-making process. As the departmental committees, once we are done, we present our reports to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, which is then transmitted to the National Treasury and Economic Planning. After interrogating the ministries on the BPS, I do not know where the Senate committees take their reports to. Do they send their reports to the Budget and Appropriations Committee of this House, or where do they submit them? There is confusion. If there are other laws that require Senators to ask the ministries to appear before them in the budget-making process, it is good that we harmonise them and involve the leadership of both Houses, National Assembly and the Senate, so that, where possible, we can do a joint sitting of the departmental committees of the National Assembly and the Senate. It is very confusing to call the same Ministry to appear before us on the BPS, and then the Senators call the same Ministry again. I do not know where they come in. So, I am seeking your direction as our Speaker and the Chairman of the Parliamentary Service Commission."
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