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    "id": 506927,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "mistakes in the Bill, the contention which we ask the Chair to rule on, is whether these amendments, including mine--- Hon. Speaker, I am being blamed by hon. Chepkong’a of having not processed my amendment through the Budget and Appropriations Committee. It is not my duty to take an amendment to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Mine is to forward an amendment to the Clerk’s Office and it is the responsibility of the Clerk’s Office to determine whether my amendment constitutes what should go to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I cannot walk around offices and ask whether my amendment has been taken to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Hon. Speaker, we have other things to do and that is why the Parliamentary Service Commission has employed our staff to be processing our amendments in the right way. But in the event that an amendment has not followed the right procedure, that amendment cannot be allowed into the Bill. Debate on it, be it mine or somebody’s, must be stopped; if, indeed, it did not go through the Budget and Appropriations Committee, there is a precedent. I would be reluctant to vary that precedent and ask that mine should be processed. I am not just disputing the one for hon. A.B. Duale; I am even saying that, if mine, which is true because I am a member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee – I did not see my amendment, brought to our Committee. I am saying that both amendments should not be debated in this House. Any other subsequent amendment, including the purported amendment to Clause 2, by hon. A.B. Duale; all the amendments that did not go to the Budget and Appropriations Committee should not be debated in this House. Only the amendments by the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade should be allowed to proceed, because the law is not very clear on whether other committees should also take their amendments to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Hon. Speaker, therefore, you will do us justice by upholding your earlier ruling on amendments touching on money Bills. Thank you."
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