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    "content": "particularly my distinguished counterpart, to bring any amendments to improve the Bill at Committee stage after we have debated it so that we can also be able as a House that is now enjoying a bad name of having passed so few Bills for no mistake of our own; our Bills are stuck in the National Assembly but those that our Committees and individual Senators have tried to make and bring here, we should not create any impediments, more particularly if those impediments are being engineered by unconcerned persons who are neither Senators nor responsible for what we are doing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have been told that the CoG, the National Treasury and the Attorney General or his representative appeared before the Committee and gave their views. So, what is it that we are trying to be wiser after the event? I urge that notwithstanding the decision that SBC may have taken, it is subject to the directions of plenary of the House. I request that the Bill be read for the First Time, be committed to the Committee and if there are any issues we need to deal with thereafter. If I heard the Majority Leader right, he is not even saying that we step down the Bill and bring it back tomorrow but he is saying that he will talk to many people. This means we will require a republication of the Bill, lose time and so on. That is not the direction we want to go. We have an avenue through which we can improve Bills. We have always done so in a bipartisan manner. If I have misunderstood you, inform me."
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