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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Finally, I get a chance to contribute to the Motion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion. I have served as a Member of the SBC. I know the committee Members who have been chosen, except the ones identified by the Standing Orders, who will be serving for two to three months before the Committee is reconstituted in January or February when the session ends. Those chosen by the House to serve in the SBC must demonstrate the requisite leadership skills that can enable them have another chance to be considered by the leadership to continue serving in the Committee after February. The Committee is extremely important in scheduling the business of the Senate. I urge my colleagues who have had the privilege to serve in the Committee to take seriously the business that comes from Members, particularly Private Bills. I also hope that the SBC will work with the secretariat, which is led by the Clerk and his team. They should assist especially Members of the Majority side, whom I have interacted with. Most of them are new, especially the nominated ones. They have come with new energy and vigor and are ready to bring Bills on issues they promised their constituents. The necessary support should be accorded to them and their Bills should be prioritized and passed in this House, as we have done before. We must make sure that in the first quarter of next year, Members give an account of the number of Bills they would have passed. Finally, the SBC provides the leadership on the relationship between the Senate and the National Assembly. I mentioned during our swearing in that there is goodwill by the Executive in so far as strengthening this House is concerned. It is not just strengthening by virtue of helping, but by also allowing this House to function as it should. The SBC should liaise with their counterparts in the National Assembly to harness this potential for closing ranks, especially on the functioning of Article 110 of the Constitution."
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