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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Pareno",
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        "legal_name": "Judith Ramaita Pareno",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Statement by my sister Senator, who is the Vice Chairperson of the Committee on Delegated Legislation. As Members of this Committee, we are really disturbed. Every time we try to perform our duties somebody somewhere either tries to erode the mandate that has been given to us, or out of impunity, tries to make us irrelevant. Today, as a Committee, we decided that we will not keep quiet about this. Immediately after our sitting this morning we actually walked to the Clerk’s office, because we were aware that we could not see the Speaker at that moment. We went there as a whole Committee and brought it to the attention of the Clerk that we wanted to state today that we are not happy with this particular amendments and several acts of impunity by the National Assembly of passing Bills that try to erode our mandate. If we do not arrest this situation at this particular time, we might as well close shop, especially when it comes to the Committee on Delegated Legislation. What the National Assembly has passed actually tries to erode and make us irrelevant and not be able to work. As a Committee we say “no”. That is why we felt that we should bring this to the attention of the House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in that Committee we have five lawyers out of the nine Members that we have. We will give our free service to go to court in case this will not be dealt with. We were told that there was such a debate again in the previous Parliament and the Members of the Senate were divided. This time we will lobby all our Members and I am happy that the Senate Majority Leader is here. That is the information we were given as a Committee this morning."
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