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    "id": 471918,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "theirs. We must have a system that guarantees that a certain percentage of opportunities belongs to them and the other percentage goes to the nation. The other day, we had the World Cup in Brazil and when Brazil played with Germany, Germany scored seven goals and Brazil got a consolation of one goal. The joke in the public is that some people called for a referendum to determine whether Brazil lost fairly. We do not want to go that way. Things should be made clear. For instance, everybody was able to see seven goals. So, I did not think we needed to go into a referendum. This country has had a lot of challenges in the past. Our mining law has been there since 1940, yet our new Constitution was enacted in 2010. The laws that were there were draconian laws and people took advantage of the loopholes in them; some people even have briefcase mining companies. This creates loopholes for corruption. It fails to give people a clear direction. I want to thank the Committee for coming up with this law and making some of those areas clear. I know that when we go into the Committee of the whole House, we will thrush out some of the areas of concern to the Members. With those few remarks, I support this Bill."
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