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    "id": 1193707,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "I wanted to make a comment because this is a House of record and procedure. What we do today may come back to haunt us tomorrow. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the tradition of this House has always been that if the SBC meets to consider the business that should be transacted on a particular day, that business can only be stood down by this House, unless a subsequent meeting of the SBC is held and they come up with another agenda. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have heard you communicate to the House that there was a unilateral discussion between you and the Speaker of the National Assembly who convinced you to withdraw the Motion that was to be before this House. The clarity I need to get from you is whether the Motion that is before the National Assembly is proceeding or they also agreed to drop it. We have had such a debate in this House. If you want to lift up our hands and say we are giving up because we are the “Lower House” and we will be dictated by the National Assembly, let us know so that we do not waste time coming to this House. Why should the National Assembly be the one setting the agenda for this House? We garnered votes like our colleagues in the National Assembly. This business of us playing subservient to the National Assembly is, to say the least, annoying and you are going to kill the spirit of many of us who have the passion to serve this Senate as the “Upper House.” Why can it not be the other way round? Why would you not convince your colleague to drop their Motion, so that we start with ours?"
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