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    "id": 1103867,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 164,
        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, the experience that we have had with the two CSs has helped us to see how this House can hold the Executive in a presidential system to account. If we continue to use the Committee of the Whole as a tool for holding the Executive to account, it could be a brilliant idea that we can achieve halfway of what we have in the Prime Minister’s questions. Instead of calling the CSs before Plenary, the Speaker can call the House as a Committee of the Whole and designate a day every week where Members of the Executive can come here. We can have a good protocol for questioning such that there are no hecklers and supporters of the Executive and allow the Leadership of the House to put the questions in advance, grill and roast members of the Executive without going into that small Committee thing. Yesterday, many people spoke about the deficiencies and inefficiencies of the Committee system. I hope that the next Senate will use the Committee of the Whole approach to hold the Executive to account. Madam Deputy Speaker, nothing stops this House from calling even the President to appear before a Committee of the Whole. This is because the Constitution gives Parliament the power to summon anybody, including the Presidency. Every time we reconstitute our Committees, we do not think of the Committee on Delegated Legislation as an important Committee of this House. Today, fuel prices keep shifting because of some regulations that were passed by Parliament. We need to strengthen the Committee on Delegated Legislation not just the Membership but also the technical competence and capacity that comes from the Office of the"
}