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    "id": 484378,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to urge you to go back to the express provisions of the Standing Orders. They are more powerful and carry more legal potency than our traditions, usage and precedents and take the House to a vote. I have represented many cases in court challenging validity of parliamentary votes on the basis of only one thing; quorum. You can challenge anything else, including the constitutionality of the law, if it has been passed. The question is: Did the House have quorum at the time they voted? Yes, we have quorum. Yes, we can vote. Yes, we have the capacity to vote and are properly constituted. You are properly in the Chair and I salute you. Since you sat there, you have not even responded to the call of nature. You have sat there diligently guiding the House through the debate. I urge you to diligently guide the House to the conclusion of today’s business. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I implore you and have no doubt that a good idea will always give way to a better idea. A better idea will always give way to the best idea. The best idea is in this book."
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