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    "id": 1121413,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1121413/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
        "slug": "erick-okongo-mogeni"
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    "content": "I think another time when the Americans responded to address a problem was in 1951. It was the 22nd amendment. When George Washington was elected the First President of the USA, he put in place this precedence that the President should serve for two terms. That became the practice for so many years until in the 1930s, when President Franklin Roosevelt decided to seek a third term and was actually elected President for a third term. In response in 1951, America had to pass the 22nd amendment to put a term limit on presidential tenure and say no president will be elected for more than two terms. So, it is nothing wrong. At times experience can lead us, as a country, to start reflecting whether a time has come when we should to do some of these amendments. Madam Temporary Speaker, having made those observations, my Committee made some recommendations, which we seek that this House adopts. The first one is that H.E. the President, without any further delay, should proceed to gazette the appointment of six persons nominated by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) for appointment as judges of the High Court of Kenya and whose names were omitted from the Kenya"
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