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    "id": 875128,
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    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": "I note that the money Bill aspect is the most critical because any time a Bill has monetary implications as stipulated in Article 114, it means that the Exchequer will incur an expense to make that legislation a reality. A lot of times, some amendments and some laws are meant to improve the lives of the people we represent, but they are not going to charge the Exchequer. It costs nothing to implement other than cleaning up how we do business. Once Bills have been cleared by the Speaker of the money Bill aspect and the Budget and Appropriations Committee has satisfied itself on the same, it makes absolutely no sense, in my opinion, for it to remain with the committee to scrutinise it before publication. Committees can interrogate these Bills when they are read the First Time in the House. The proposal that I see here is that they be read the First Time and then presented to committees. Committees can interrogate these Bills to see what input they may want to make. It does not make sense for a Bill to remain with a committee yet it will end up there. I support that we do away with that proposal. This Motion is on the 30 Bills that have already gone through some of the stages. There are a lot of Bills, according to what I have heard from my colleagues, that are still pending. Once we pass this Motion, we will have sorted out the 30 Bills. From what the Leader of the Majority Party said, many other Bills are still pending. Members are still wasting Wednesday mornings discussing Motions. I have presented several Motions. Almost every Member has brought Motions here. We have debated and passed them, but that becomes the end of them. Nothing is done. It is almost always impossible to implement. It is important that we consider, as we move forward, amending our Standing Orders, so that we can make it easy for Bills in the future. I believe our committees have a lot of work. We are in the budget-making season and they are completely bogged down with issues. Maybe, we may need to consider the possibility of removing this clause from the Standing Orders. If we can do it for the 30 Bills, why not for the rest of the Bills that are yet to come here, going forward? I support the Motion, but I will support it to be a permanent situation. The problem of dealing with Private Members’ Bills has always been there. From the time I came to this House, this being my second term, it seems like an impossibility for a Private Member’s Bill to find its way into the House. That may be the bottleneck. When we get rid of it, going into the future, we will have more Bills coming from Members. We will discuss Private Members’ Bills on Wednesday mornings. With those remarks, I support."
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