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    "id": 373936,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2884,
        "legal_name": "Alice Wambui Ng'ang'a",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I just want to add to what hon. Abdalla has spoken to especially with regard to her last comment on the issue of referring any Bill that is considered a money Bill to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. This particular provision of the Standing Order needs to be looked into. As a way forward to amend that particular provision, we can put it in a way that every committee, when they are doing a report on a Bill, also to subject it to financial scrutiny, instead of lumping all Bills to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Over 90 per cent of the Bills will be money Bills and crowding that committee with all those Bills will slow down the process. In my view, as you make the ruling, we should consider seriously how we would amend this provision, so that instead of referring all the money Bills to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, we refer them to the relevant committees, but with a rider that each report should be accompanied by financial assessment."
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