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    "id": 553581,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/553581/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Otucho",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Emaase Otuch",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, once more for this opportunity. I appreciate the concerns raised by Hon. Midiwo and echoed by most of the Members who have spoken, but I am surprised that they seem to suggest that the Budget and Appropriations Committee should not have made any variations. The information I wanted to give to the House is that the Budget and Appropriations Committee largely adopted the recommendations of the Departmental Committee and only did very minimum variations. If you imply that the Budget and Appropriations Committee should not have varied anything, then that begs the question, are we a rubber stamp? The mandate of the Budget and Appropriations Committee is also to protect the interests of the people of Kenya. The only variations we did were to decline to adopt the recommendations by the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, for instance to reduce the budget of the Judiciary, because we said this is a critical department that has important responsibilities and we cannot afford to reduce its budget."
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