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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am not aware of this caucus that I was being crowned as the majority leader. We have confidence in the leadership in this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to join you in welcoming Members back to this very important penultimate session of the Senate. I really encourage that we put our best foot forward. I want to agree with this Motion and support it in terms of reconstituting SBC. Mr. Speaker, Sir, despite being one of the Members, I heard Sen. Orengo saying it consists of the leadership plus other Members who add colour, but it is not just colour if you look at them. I do not know whether it is Sen. Dullo who is adding colour or Sen. Kwamboka or who. However, there is a lot of substance. Do you want just colour? It is a very important Committee because it sets the tone of the House. They say that the Liaison Committee is the Cabinet of the House. If that is the case then, SBC is the “deep state” of the House because it looks at all issues more than just legislative business. Mr. Speaker, Sir, maybe for those who are not in the list, there is no privilege. It is just work. There is no privilege of being in SBC. It is just additional work. There are no trips. It is true, I do not know whether there has ever been any trip. Ni kazi tu. Based on the ruling that has come out, there are very many Bills which we had gone very far with. Some were at the stage of Committee of the whole, but they have now been republished. I would urge and I know I will still canvass this within the Committee that we prioritize those first. We must find a way through the Standing Orders to fast- track them because a lot of public participation had been done. Hon. Members had already canvassed the issues in the Second Reading. We can really fast-track those Bills and bring them to Committee stage where they had been, including the Prompt Payment Bill. I saw the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) has even picked up this Bill as one of their proposals yet we had already reached the Committee stage on that Bill. We can actually move very fast on them and make progress. I would like to encourage Chairpersons of Committees that we are back as my colleague Chairpersons. There is a lot of pending business out there in the country. There are a lot of issues, Petitions and matters of the common mwananchi which we need to look at. I know many Committees have started. We will start our Committee on Labour The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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