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    "id": 990629,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Let me speak as the Member of Parliament for Kipipiri. If the House approves, I will be moving the Motion as the Chair of the Mediation Committee. What the Leader of the Majority Party raised is true. It may be a serious matter. However, I want to agree with the Leader of the Minority Party that we are not talking about a Bill that is serially processed in the Senate and after it has been processed to finality, the Senate brings it to the National Assembly. We are talking of a parallel process where the two mediated versions are supposed to be approved by both Houses simultaneously. After the two Houses have concurred, then the Bill is sent for assent. If the two Houses do not agree, then it becomes a different ball game altogether. The matter the Leader of the Majority Party has raised would be best raised when the Communication by the Speaker of the Senate is that the Senate has passed its version. We can, therefore, debate in terms of the passage only. However, they agreed with us. I can tell you in most of the amendments in the mediated version, they agreed with us. It is what this National Assembly wanted. So, basically, we spend a lot of time to do amendments. When we have gains, instead of securing them, we are now doubting the Senate whereas they acceded to all the amendments that we made. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the thing we need to look at in this mediated version is whether or not it has come from the Senate."
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