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    "id": 274157,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/274157/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. George Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, I believe that this matter is fairly straightforward and, indeed, simple. The President is constitutionally empowered to refuse to assent to a Bill. If he does, he can return it to the House with his recommendations. Even if it amounts to negating that Bill, the House has one function. Both under the former Constitution and the current Constitution, we can accept his recommendations and pass them as they are, or we can reject them and retain the Bill as passed previously. You can even amend his recommendations. The Committee has actually said yes, we accept this part, but we are also recommending amendments. So, no matter what we do, it will not take us very far if we think that we can gloss over our constitutional functions by finding a technical way of avoiding the substantive debate. I plead that we get to the recommendations and sort them out. If we disagree with them, let us amend them. Mr. Chairman, Sir, finally, you are being asked to set a precedent. Let us ask ourselves this question: If we were to reject these recommendations on the direction of the Chairman, what then becomes of the Bill itself? The President may, again decline to accept it. We have not done anything to move the legislative process forward. When you give your direction, think of those consequences."
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