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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a fairly straightforward matter. I do not see why anybody, for whatever reason, would have a problem with it. Of course, I do not want to pre-empt debate. I will leave it to the wisdom of the House to either agree with us as proposed or together with an amendment, so that we can meet on Wednesday mornings, considering that we have long standing businesses that are still pending. Part of what we could do, which we will suggest to the SBC, is that if you look at our Order Paper this afternoon, there are almost 10 to 20 Motions that have been proposed by various colleagues. However, because of the nature of how we transact business in this House, unfortunately we have not been able to consider them. Some of the Motions have been on the Order Paper for almost three or four months. That is not right. Part of what we could do on Wednesdays morning is that if meet and conclude on the business and Members are satisfied that the business that had been slated earlier, or the CS responded sufficiently or asked for additional time to find better answers to bring before the House, we could as well consider other long standing businesses that have been pending. That will help because Motions are being brought every now and then. I do not believe it is out of idleness or just wanting to fill up the Order Paper that colleagues bring Motions here. It is unfair that we have kept some of these Motions on the Order Paper for more than a month or two. Giving the Senate additional time to meet means we shall transact more business as a House. I request colleague Senators to agree with this proposal, so that we can conclude some businesses and deal with additional ones. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I appreciate your guidance yesterday. This is because there had been an erroneous interpretation that by Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) appearing before this House in a gathering of the Plenary they are not required to appear before the committees as expected by Article 153 of our Constitution. I appreciate that yesterday you gave clear guidelines that CSs will still appear before our committees to respond to other ordinary business that was pending or that may arise in the course of Members of various committees going about their duties. That lays the matter to rest. Given that this is a fairly straight forward matter, I do not intend to be long about it because I believe it is something that colleagues can read, understand and appreciate. With those many remarks, I beg to move and request the Senator of Kakamega County, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale to second."
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