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House Hijinks
posted (March 24, 2017)
Earlier on we showed you some of the meat of today's debate. But there's also what you might call the fat, and that's the sparring across the house floor which is when members hurl insults at each other under the microphones. It's not exactly exemplary parliamentary conduct, but it can be entertaining in a day of debates that runs for as long as 10 hours. Here's an example in an exchange between Francis Fonseca and Anthony Boots Martinez about votes and houses in Belama:

the budget debate is still going at this hour, and the Prime Minister probably won't get to wind it up until after 8:00.

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