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    "id": 391667,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think that the Committee systems are important, particularly in processing work for debate in the House. Of course, they have other responsibilities, but that should not be used to curtail the freedom of individual Members to bring a Bill before the House and persuade us that, indeed, there is merit in that Bill. This is because at this rate, then it would mean that individual Members will have to persuade the Committees before any Bill can come for Second Reading. I think that these are issues that can be dealt with during the debate. In any case, I think that this request should have come from the Member who was moving the Bill. He can tell the House that probably they are in discussion with the Committee. I am saying this because Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale had a very good Bill, but the Committee sat on it for so long and then, we found a similar Bill now coming in the National Assembly. It was moving a lot faster than the Bill that we brought before the House. So, while I sympathize with the issues that Sen. Billow is bringing, unless he can put those technical issues before us and persuade us, I think that it would be wrong for a Bill, which is before the House and is the property of the Plenary, to be taken from us without proper reasons being given."
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