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    "id": 1044398,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaruma",
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        "legal_name": "Johnes Mwashushe Mwaruma",
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    "content": "There is pending business in this House in terms of Bills, Petitions and Motions. I would like to urge the new SBC to fast track the pending business of the House. We have pending business Bills, including those were nullified because of the court ruling which require republication. I urge you that the SBC expedites action so that we have them republished. Secondly, I would like to look at the philosophical underpinning the constitution of the SBC. We have diligent, able and people full of colour in this list. However, I would like to address myself to the issue of institutional memory which was alluded to by Sen. Murkomen when it comes to a new House in future. We need to have people serving here because we are moving towards the election and we do not know which Members will be reelected back to this Senate. Other people might be going for different seats such as gubernatorial seat and the presidency. Assuming that all these Members who have been serving in the last four sessions do not find their way back to this House what will happen? We will have new Members who will be tinkering, trying to understand the Senate business. I urge that if it is possible within the year, we can have new people, a mix of the people in the list and new ones, so that in the future Parliament we have institutional memory in place. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support the whole list as it is and wish you the best of luck as we steer this House in the year 2021."
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