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    "content": "Last week, we met and we had requested the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs to appear before us. She never appeared. She did not even delegate appropriately her Principal Secretary to appear. The long and short of my story is that we sat and then looked at her proposed budget estimates. We made changes in her absence and forwarded a report to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. The question I had asked earlier and which I want to come back to is that the report which the Budget and Appropriations Committee has presented before this House ignores the work of the Foreign Relations Committee. The Chairman, in his own response to what I had said earlier, said they have super-plenary powers. Article 114 of the Constitution gives powers to the Committee but also gives powers to the Speaker of the House to weigh in his wisdom. The point I am requesting you to guide us on is: Is it possible for the Budget and Appropriations Committee to totally ignore the work of other Parliamentary Committees? There will be no reason for the Budget and Appropriations Committee or for us to summon Cabinet Secretaries. I think that even his own assertion that he looked for the Cabinet Secretary while the PFM Act says the relevant parliamentary Committee--- Where would the Chairman of Budget and Appropriations Committee draw his power to look for the Cabinet Secretary who the relevant Committee could not get? Where would he draw the power to bypass your office and go and look for the President?"
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