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    "id": 1018822,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": "I thank you Senators and the Committee of 12 led by Sen. Wetangula and Sen. Sakaja who were Co-Chairs. Thank you very much for the work that you have done and, of course, the other 10 Members. I shall not endeavour to name all of them because they are well known. I want to thank them for the way they have conducted themselves. Usually, in their competitive spirits, they should have rushed to the media and claimed accolades, but they did not do so. They would have probably said that they are the ones who brokered this deal. For those who may want to say so, you are at liberty to say so because you had a role to play as long as you recognise that the whole House is responsible for this process. Madam Temporary Speaker, we now come back to the issues ahead of us. If we bring ourselves to a place where we do not allow the Senate to be ridiculed or belittled by anyone, we will stand together. We ask our friends and colleagues in the other House, the National Assembly, that in this process, we should all consider the counties as our responsibility. If it were not for the other House working against the Division of Revenue Authority (DORA), we would been way ahead. There should have been no need for us to haggle over meagre resources when it was possible to get more resources than this. I remember in the last DORA, governors gave in so quickly and we could not negotiate. Our team that went to negotiate was very disappointed, but through that we got our wish. Therefore, the team led by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. that went to the negotiation table have literally succeeded through other means. I want to thank all the Members as you enjoy this weekend with the promise that we will finish the County Allocation Revenue Act (CARA) on Tuesday. Everything else will move in tandem with our promise that the country will start getting resources very soon. I will now lay the Business of the Senate for the week."
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