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    "id": 280329,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/280329/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbau",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 182,
        "legal_name": "Elias Peter Mbau",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts the Budget Committee Report on the Budget Policy Statement for 2012/13 laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 25th April, 2012. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Members of the Budget Committee, and as is required under Standing Orders No.143(4), I hereby present to the House the Committee’s Report on the 2012/2013 Budget Policy Statement laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday 25th, 2012, pursuant to Standing Orders No.143. Once before the House, the Budget Policy Statement stands committed to the Budget Committee for examination in consultation with the departmental committees and subsequently a report is read in this House. The Constitution of Kenya establishes Parliament as the guardian of public finances and financial measures, and it has drastically changed the landscape of public financial management in this country. The role of Parliament has shifted from a budget-approving legislature to a budget-making one. Budget-making entails identifying programmes and activities to be carried out during a specific period and outlining how revenues raised will be shared among competing needs. This is the third Report on the Budget Policy Statement to be"
}