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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/724991/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Speaker",
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        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": " Order, Senators! We might protract this matter for too long. At the end of the day, we will have only one way forward. The Bill has not been withdrawn. Let us first of all start by understanding that. It was, at the request of the Senate Leader of Majority, stood down. As Sen. Wetangula has correctly said, it was a decision of the Senate Business Committee. The Senate Business Committee is the only committee of the House that can make a decision like that. It is done in consultation. It sat today and considered the request by the Senate Leader of Majority that it be stood down so that there can be further consultations. Therefore, the Bill is not being withdrawn. Sen. Wetangula, the Senate Minority Leader, knows only too well that the Speaker, who also sits in the Senate Business Committee, cannot for no good reason or unilaterally overrule the decision of the Senate Business Committee. If you wish, I can refer you to Standing Order No.176 (d) which gives the Senate Business Committee the right to make decisions and issue directives and guidelines to prioritize or postpone any business of the Senate in consultation with the Speaker as the case may be. Therefore, that is a decision that has been made. What you are asking me to do now is to override unilaterally a decision of the Senate Business Committee (SBC). The point I want to make to you, with the greatest respect to Sen. Madzayo, you have to make consultations again, with the leadership of the House and at the correct time, the Bill will be on the Order Paper. You do not expect me to stand here and override the Senate Business Committee because that is a decision that was made at which both leaders of the House were present."
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