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    "id": 1210989,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, yesterday when we were forming the Senate Business Committee (SBC), we agreed in unison. Yesterday was a good day because both the Majority and Minority Sides were in the House. Therefore, no one can say they did not agree. I can see a number of my colleagues who sit in the SBC. Some of us have a number of very serious Bills that can change the lives of Kenyans, but we are dying for the moment to move them. Can we institute a form of punishment to defer orders whose Movers are not in the House to a month so that others who are on the pipeline can move theirs? The Order Paper comes with the same Bills which are read, but the Movers are not in the House. Therefore, they are deferred. Out of our busy schedule, this is our responsibility. We have come to the Senate to listen and canvass on the main and core business of legislating. I do not want to talk about whatever the Minority Side is doing. However, my prayer is that, through your office and the SBC, we can have serious and earth-shaking decisions so that Members know that even if they are traveling on an official trip, both locally and internationally, they should write to your office and request that their Statements, Motions and Bills be deferred until when they are available. This also includes when they want to picket or protest. Therefore, through your office, I request the SBC to reconsider that so that we do not sit here to just read and adjourn when we have a lot of business. We might be mistaken that we lack business. I do not want to go to that direction. Therefore, I appeal, through the SBC, in consultation with the Office of the Clerk, that we have a ruling or way-forward, be it openly or in SBC so that we do not waste time yet a number of us have businesses that do not appear on the Order Paper."
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