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    "id": 516109,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/516109/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Simiyu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, thank you for this chance. This kind of situation calls on you to do a precedent setting review of the whole matter. With the new constitutional dispensation, this Budget Policy Statement will be coming to the House every year. The way things appear, we are not privy to that Budget Policy Statement until it is tabled by the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Once it has been tabled, the only thing we can do on our side would be to bring amendments. If we were to consult the Chairman and his Committee to look at our amendments before they are brought to the Floor, perhaps, you would set a precedent ruling that would, therefore, determine how best the House will be tackling such situations. Such situations will arise almost every year. We should have a clear direction as to how we will be dealing with such a situation whenever it arises. If he has tabled the amendment, maybe, you can give us a window period within which those who might have amendments can sit with the Committee, so that then the Committee can either reject or incorporates them and the Chairman brings them to the House. That window period; the time scale involved is, perhaps, of essence here."
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