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    "id": 471263,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/471263/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 55,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "July 16, 2014 SENATE DEBATES 7 The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
        "slug": "moses-wetangula"
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    "content": " ---I did not launch any assault on my Chairperson, and he understood me as such. Two, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to draw the attention of the Chair using my Chairperson or our Committee as a guinea pig, so that he can give general directions. Three, Mr. Speaker, Sir, the purpose of the Bills going to committees is not limited to bringing amendments, but to inform debate because they do a much more thorough work than individual Senators. So, when they Table them in advance, it informs and helps debate because there is no point for me to debate going east and then the Committee brings a report convincing that we should have gone west and then when the HANSARD reports are read in future by our children and grandchildren, we look like we were directionless. So, that is the point I was trying to bring to the Floor; that the Committee system, in fact, was to take heavy work from plenary to Committees so that then the Committees will assist plenary in informed debate. Not all of us have all the time to go through every bit---"
}