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    "id": 581057,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, we face a dilemma in two ways. Actually there are two dilemmas. One, the time has elapsed for us to even convene again to present or adopt a report. Secondly, at the time the Joint Committee was constituted, the National Assembly had already made its decision on the matter. We would need guidance to know how we would bring back the matter to a House that has already dealt with the matter. In our opinion, we felt that the Committee was functus officio on that issue. In any case, we were just helping the Senate deliberate on those amendments. It is only to the Senate that that report can go. Either way, even for it to go to the Senate, we needed to all have signed the report if they were to present a report of the Joint Committee, but they were not able to present it. In as much as it was only signed by the Chair, the meeting that had been constituted did not have a quorum, and we were not able to hold it. When we tried to have another meeting later, it was not possible. Hon. Speaker, I do not envy you at this point because the decision, or Communication, that you are to make will set a precedent. This is the first time we are dealing with a Presidential Memorandum that concerns two Houses and on how to deal with it, especially given the fact that the time has already lapsed, and the National Assembly has already declared its position on the same matter."
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