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    "id": 511546,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Members of this country. It is not every day that we should come to the National Assembly and every issue we discuss on the Floor of the House is wrestled upon. There comes a time when we have issues that we can debate soberly, and in a manner that draws us together. Hon. Speaker, the business before us is an issue that we on both sides of the House must look at soberly. I attended the meeting that was called by the Leader of Majority Party. We did a lot of work in order to have amendments that could be presented on the Floor of this House. I also know that after that, the Leader of Majority Party called hon. Members who had amendments, so that we were able to harmonize them. In my observation, the issue is that many hon. Members are today seeing the business appearing on the Order Paper this morning. As a matter of fact, it was not on the Parliamentary website at the time we expected it to be there. Hon. Speaker, I know you have made an observation on it, but I plead with you because we have just seen the committee’s amendments and the amendments proposed by hon. Members. There are many hon. Members, who may have wanted to propose further amendments, but because Standing Orders require that the amendments be in writing and that they get approved by the Speaker, I kindly ask that we get some more time to be able to pool people together. Those of us who may not have seen committee’s amendments, or the amendments proposed by hon. Members, will see that many of the issues that they were talking about have been taken on board. I request that before we go to the next Order, we have time to look at the amendments and see if we can come to some agreement. I beg that this Order does not go to the Floor in an acrimonious way; we can easily look at the same digit at the same time. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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