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    "id": 619316,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/619316/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "If the Budget and Appropriations Committee made recommendations it did not bring to the National Assembly, then it over-stepped its mandate. However, the estimate proposals were brought to this House. I listened carefully. I wanted to hear Hon. Jakoyo say that the Budget and Appropriations Committee passed some recommendations without bringing them to the National Assembly. Every work of the Budget and Appropriations Committee has been passed by this House. Therefore, you cannot even indicate that the Budget and Appropriations Committee has allocated money because it has no powers to do so. Such power rests with the National Assembly. Let us face facts. I know that Hon. Jakoyo has talked about the Budget and Appropriations Committee undermining the responsibility and role of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade. That would not be right. I guess that he is referring to money Bills. It is the Constitution that gave the Budget and Appropriations Committee the mandate to review all the money Bills. Therefore, if the Budget and Appropriations Committee has made its recommendations and the House does not agree with them, then the House is at liberty to reject those proposals."
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