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    "id": 650936,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "April 27, 2016 SENATE DEBATES 32 Sen. Sang",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Bill. From the outset, I want to say that I was privileged to sit in the Mediation Committee. It is interesting to note that on several occasions, Members of this House have developed Bills which we discuss. In the process of discussing them, Members of the other House have had the tendency to pick and develop the same ideas and purport to develop their own new Bills. This is one such incident where a Bill was developed by a Member of this House, we discussed and passed it and was forwarded to the National Assembly. They sat on it. A few days later, we heard that another Bill had been developed by a Member of the National Assembly, which exactly mirrors the same Bill that we have here. This is bad practice in terms of legislative processes and an abuse of the process of generating Bills in a bicameral House. I hope that Members of the National Assembly will appreciate that since we already have a bicameral Parliament, if there are certain things that they do not agree in a Bill that has originated from the Senate, they have the opportunity to amend the same Bill. We do not want to have situations that are embarrassing, like having two Bills with exactly the same content; one Bill originating from the Senate and the other from the National Assembly. You will remember that we also had another Bill proposed by Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale which also appeared to have been plagiarized by a Member of the National Assembly. He presented it and it was discussed by the National Assembly---"
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