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    "id": 952823,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "It must be said without fear of contradiction that the question of Clause 1 of the Division of Revenue Bill was not a matter for mediation at all. Even if the record comes out that the mediation Committee probably spoke to it and agreed to it, it was outside their jurisdiction; it was ultra vires . It is not what the Speakers of both Houses committed for mediation. I hope that whereas sometimes we have tried to pin our hopes on what is called the law of principle of necessity that it is possible to justify our conduct, it should not justify us breaking the law. As Lord Denning once said: “If you apply the law of necessity, it can lead to absurdity.” This is because poverty may be so extreme that a man who has not gone without food for a year or two months or a day can use that principle to break into a house, go into a restaurant and eat for a free. This would actually be an act of theft. Disobedience of the law in whatever shape or form only brings anarchy and disorder. That should not be encouraged."
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