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    "id": 916984,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/916984/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Finally, there is a Bill referred to in Chapter 12 that is affecting the finances of county governments. This is where there has been a problem. In Chapter 12, there are two Bills that deal with finances: The Division of Revenue Bill and the County Allocation of Revenue Bill but, in the Constitution, it says a Bill. If the Constitution expected that both Bills could be dealt with by the Senate, it would have said so; that it is Bills contained in Chapter 12. That is why I have consistently said from 2013 that it is a mistake to have the Division of Revenue Bill transacted in two Houses. When you look at the County Allocation of Revenue Bill, it is very clear that it can only override the Senate by a super majority. How can you just leave an important Bill such as the Division of Revenue Bill for the mediation of two Houses? That was a mistake and I continue to believe so. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I hope you will add me some more five minutes. What the Senate has been questioning is whether Hon. Speaker has been right in having some Bills transacted only in the National Assembly. If a question does not arise as to whether a Bill concerns counties the people of Kenya did not expect that every time Members generate Bills, the two Speakers have to sit. That would be wastage of time and the High Court in 2014 made that determination."
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