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    "id": 185598,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/185598/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Abdikadir",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion and say that this House's important work is to state atruism. By its very nature, Parliament's work is always important. The issue really is how to balance. The responsibilities of a Member of Parliament are of several compartments, one of which is legislation. The other two major compartments are representation and oversight. Both those two function best when the House is not in session, or when the Member of Parliament is himself or herself out of the House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have been very active in Committee work over the last couple of months. Currently, the Committee I chair handles the largest chunk of the Bills before the House. We have had about seven Bills before us. That work really requires a Member of Parliament to be out of the House. A former and famous President of the United States of America (USA), who was also a Congressman, and wrote a seminal book on the operations of the Congress, said of Congress: \"Congress in Committee is Congress working, and Congress in session is Congress on show.\" 2454 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 7, 2008"
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