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    "id": 467977,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/467977/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I accept your ruling, which is the correct ruling, only that I am not convinced that we should reduce the time for publication from 14 days to 13 days, without any proper justification. There is some very good wisdom in why we fixed the publication period at 14 days. It gives the stakeholders time to read, analyze, comment, advise us, write to us and so on. So, for that reason, the 14 days have always been the custom and not only customary, but also procedural in our Standing Orders. So, to reduce them, you must have a very good reason. Not that we are sleeping on our job because we are not and not that this is urgent because it is not, at least, there must be a reason. We are being watched by students of debate in universities and secondary schools. They might be asking the reason advanced by the Senate Majority Whip for reduction of time by one day. It must be really persuasive. I have listened carefully and I think we should stick to our rules. I thought the Senate Majority Whip was going to say something like this. That this is the last sitting day of the week and that the next sitting day is Tuesday. So, if it is read today, the time will start running and maybe convince us to deal with it before we go home on recess; something like that. But to come here and try to persuade us without convincing us, is not right. I oppose."
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