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    "id": 597139,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Machage",
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Gisuka Machage",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for allowing the House to ventilate and express views on their own personal understanding of a document that we had not looked at hitherto. I do not know where they got all that information from. All the same, our Standing Orders tie you completely. I would like us to look at the definition of the word “proceedings.” Its synonyms are events, activities, happenings or goings-on. In law, you would talk of litigation, reports or accounts. Therefore, I would define it a series of activities or events. For that reason, I would be in order to remind you that after the report was tabled and presented to us by the Chairman, you should have stopped this debate. Anyway, you are also obligated to look at the Article 123(4) of the Constitution. The question is: What is superior? Is it our Standing Orders or the constitutional provision? Do we begin discussing a committee that was elected by this House without a substantive Motion? We are going against our own Standing Orders. Is it, therefore, in order to request you to order that this Sitting is stopped and the House adjourns?"
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