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    "id": 440389,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Sometimes drama can bring home the point faster than merely speaking. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in view of the fact that most of last year, this House debated mostly Motions - In fact, it came to a point where we were saying that we are supposed to legislate. Many Senators who spoke said that time had come for us to be legislating which is a key constitutional function. Taking that into account and taking into account that we have now begun debating Bills, for example, we had one yesterday and there are others scheduled and ready to be debated; there are a number which have been approved. So, would I be in order to request that the decision to focus Motions on Wednesday afternoon should be revised to allow a Bill to be done on a Wednesday afternoon? I am saying this because on the average, a Bill takes about two hours. For example, yesterday, we had to lengthen talking up to the very end because of many factors that were going on. A Bill would take about two hours and so on. We can have a Bill and a Motion on Wednesday. For example, if today we had listed the Bill that was being debated yesterday and we were more or less complete with it---. In fact, it was about to be concluded. It was Sen. Musila who had ten minutes to go before the Mover is called upon to reply. If we could have completed that because it is going to take a short time, at least, we would have done one Act. You can also come to my Bill; The Public Law Maintenance (Amendment) Bill which is touching on several amendments on the Acts of Parliament which are unconstitutional because we did not take into account that the county governments are now there. We would have finished with that one and then utilized the remaining time with the Motion. So, I am appealing to you, now that we have begun debating legislation, let us it be given some priority while not completely ignoring the Motions. Like now you see---"
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