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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Motion by the Deputy Majority Leader. Firstly, I record my thanks in the manner in which the presidium, led by the hon. Speaker himself has conducted the brief session we have had up to today. When we elected the hon. Speaker and his Deputy, and even when the presidium was extended to include you, we did not know how they would do their work. You have done a good job. It is my duty as a regular and a loyal Member of this House to record my thanks in the manner in which the Chairs and the Speakers, both substantive and the Deputy, have conducted this House. It is also proper for me to thank and say how proud I am of all Members in this House and how they have contributed. I am pretty regular and I have seen those who have bothered to look up their facts, done their research and have come here to present. I love to sit and listen to some of the people who have done their research. I mention in particular, the Senator who has just spoken, Sen. Oketch Gicheru, who is a young gentleman. I am very proud of him and the contributions he makes in this House. We have seen Statements in this House in the last brief part of the Session. We have also seen Notices of Motion being given and at least one Motion that was affirmed by a resolution of this House. I join my colleague, Sen. M. Kajwang, in saying that so far, we have not been able to process a Bill through the three stages. I have been a regular and cannot recall a day in which we did a First Reading for any Bill, but I stand to be corrected. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my prayer is that as we retreat this time round, we will definitely correct some of the minor mistakes. They include some of our colleagues crossing over and so on. Some of them are changing language mid-speech and some of them speaking in vernacular language. We will change that. Critically, I hope this message goes to the Senate Business Committee. The Committee said that it will precede us on Sunday and have meetings on Sunday and Monday. What we need is to process Bills. Those Bills that lapsed in the last term of the House have been taken over by the hardworking Senators, who have volunteered to finish the work that was started by our worthy colleagues, who are not sitting in this House anymore. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I pray that the message will go and we shall prioritize those important Bills. We need to process them. We need to come here, debate and make resolutions. We should finish those Bills that were almost going through and were frustrated at the National Assembly. At the end of it, those Bills will really count as the output of this House. It is my prayer that this will be prioritized in the retreat and we shall have another opportunity to socialize with some of the Senators. We note that some of us are very busy outside. I do not know what they do out there because we do not see some of them. Therefore, this will be an opportunity to see them, maybe encourage them to attend the Chamber more. We will get to know each other better."
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