{"id":553525,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/553525/?format=json","text_counter":79,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Musyimi","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":95,"legal_name":"Mutava Musyimi","slug":"mutava-musyimi"},"content":"The Committee has discretion given to it by the Standing Orders. Chairs of Committees deal with the Cabinet Secretaries and we deal with the Treasury. But every once in a while, the Committee meets with the Head of the national Government and I normally report these things. There is nothing to hide. We are all elected leaders. I told my Committee that sometimes this week, I will have an opportunity to meet the President, so that I could brief him about the Budget. I find nothing wrong with that, so that I can tell him how far we have gone with the"}