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    "content": "What remains, Mr. Speaker, Sir, and I want to urge you to pursue this rigorously with your counterpart in the National Assembly, is the operationalization of Article 110(3) regarding Bills before they are initiated before either House. What I have discovered, because last time you asked me to engage a little more with the Executive, is that the problem is with some middlemen; some people functionally in the middle somewhere who have arrogated themselves the right to determine which Bills go where. I want to report to this House that, that process that Article 110(3) anticipates is complied with. I am pursuing it very rigorously and so far, it is yielding fruits. Article 110(3) is very clear that the two Speakers shall resolve that question jointly, not the Attorney-General. The explanation we are getting is that: “The Attorney- General, in the memorandum of reasons puts in a clause somewhere that this Bill does not concern counties.” It is not his job. It is just his opinion. Even the sponsor of a Bill could have an opinion. A Cabinet Secretary or the Attorney-General could have an opinion but it is just an opinion. In fact, just for emphasis, the only two people authorized to make that determination are the Speakers of the National Assembly and the Senate, jointly, not severally. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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