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    "id": 886822,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/886822/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mumias East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Benjamin Washiali",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 151,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
        "slug": "benjamin-washiali"
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to invite Members to Standing Order No. 146. It gives us an opportunity to amend our own rules and procedures. The Bills we are talking about under Standing Order No.146 are actually Bills that have originated from the National Assembly and exhaustively discussed and referred to the Senate. In the course of the debate in the Senate, there could be some amendments. Therefore, these are Bills that generally we have had an opportunity to debate and according to the House Business Committee (HBC) and the meeting yesterday, the one that I attended and I am happy the Leader of the Minority Party here also attended, we agreed that since the Bills have been exhaustively debated in the National Assembly, we can only look at the amendments and whether they would help that Bill. That is why we have decided as the HBC to propose to the Committee of the whole House that instead of taking the entire period to discuss other Bills, we should reduce the time so that we can have time to relook at other Bills. The Chairperson of Budget and Appropriations Committee is confusing me. We were in this meeting with Hon. John Mbadi, the Leader of the Minority Party and the Member of Parliament for Suba South. I move this Motion and request him to second."
}