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    "id": 842673,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Further, Hon. Members the reservations with regard to the Value Added Tax (VAT) on petroleum products relate to an amendment made by this House to the Bill moved by the Minority Party Whip, the Hon. Junet Mohamed. The other reservations with regard to the amendments to the Excise Duty Act and the Employment Act on the proposed contributions to the National Housing Development Fund relate to amendments made by this House to provisions that were originally in the Bill. Indeed, the reservation and recommendation on the National Housing Development Fund is nearly word for word similar to the amendment proposed by the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and the Leader of the Majority Party during the Committee Stage of the Bill, which was said to have been initiated as a result of public participation. The query with regard to the need for public participation is therefore disingenuous and unnecessary. Hon. Members, Hon. Oluoch raised a third issue of whether the President’s reservation with regard to the Finance Bill, 2018, amounts to a “line-item veto”, and, if it does, whether the same is constitutional. In Parliamentary parlance, a “veto” is a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a lawmaking body. A “line-item veto”, on the other hand is a rejection of a specific portion of a legislation passed by the legislature. In classical use, a president exercises a right to reject a legislation forwarded for assent in totality."
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