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    "id": 410844,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/410844/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
    "speaker_title": "The Temporary Deputy Chairman",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2712,
        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
        "slug": "kajwang-tom-joseph-francis"
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    "content": "In my considered opinion, the Constitution is very clear on the position of committee proceedings in a presidential system of Government. It really bothers me if a committee has sat down and made recommendations, laid Papers in the House for which recommendations have been made and a Chair or a Member rises in his place to negate that which the committee has made in the recommendations. It bothers me as the Chair that whereas the Constitution has placed the committee as a constitutional value in the proceedings of the National Assembly, in a presidential system, the National Assembly must have an opportunity to express itself and to hold the committee proceedings as part of its custody. Whether the Standing Orders state otherwise or do not speak to it, the Constitution itself is supreme and we will protect it. However, I do not want to express my view over whether this section or that section should be included or not because that is not my role. So, for fairness I will allow that, that Question be proposed and discussed and disposed of in the normal manner of doing things in this House, which is votes. I, therefore, propose the Question. First of all, I propose that Clause 3 be further amended by including the words “In considering the report pursuant to subsection (4), Parliament shall not interfere with the context, text, form and substance of the report.”"
}