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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I just want to thank you for the discretion you have rightly exercised this afternoon particularly in light of the importance of this Bill. You will recall that this is the Bill where this Senate was denied participation until we had to go to the Supreme Court to assert our role. It will be a tragedy, having successfully asserted our role in and participation in this Bill, being the last Bill of its kind for this Senate, to now fail to discharge our mandate. In fact, we should not participate at all by the virtue of our own conduct. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this was placed on the Order Paper and I must say it is very embarrassing. We do not have the Senate Majority Leader, the Senate Minority Leader, their deputies and the Chief Whips in this House. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, your wise decision in postponing it will give the opportunity to the leadership of the Senate to wake up to its role and ensure that we are all here tomorrow to vote on this Bill. Those Senators who are here today should undertake to bring 10 other Senators each, to ensure that we are a full House."
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