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    "id": 1252265,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Veronica Maina",
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    "content": "business through the proceedings in the Chamber and the Committees. Allowing the de- whipping of Senators who represent the people is allowing a negation of the representation of the people through the proceedings of those Committees. We must concentrate on understanding the business conducted in those Committees. Is it part of the business of this House? Do they vote? Are decisions taken at the Committee that bind the Senate and Counties? If the answer is, yes, then every Senator is entitled to do their representation in Plenary and Committee level. If a ruling on a finding is made by this House, that a Senator cannot participate in a committee as a full substantive Member because the Senator has fallen out with their political party or coalition arrangement, it is as well as deciding to expel them from participating in the proceedings in the House. I wish to invite you to be shy and distant from making such a finding. It is because such a finding will go to the very root of the constitutional rights of the Senators to represent the people who elected him or her. In this case, it is the Senators from the Jubilee Party. One more thing you have been invited to decide upon and you may not have powers, is to whether Jubilee Party is a Member of the Azimio Coalition or not. I say so because there are certain matters that have been presented before the court and are pending for judgements. We have had a flurry of orders being served between the Members of the Jubilee Party and the Azimio Coalition. We have had the Senate Minority Leader indicating that the Jubilee Party is no longer a Member of the coalition. Sen. Abdul Haji is indicating that they are Members of the Azimio Coalition. Is it within your powers to make a determination whether Jubilee Party is in that coalition or not? That is beyond the jurisdiction of this Senate. I urge you to find that each Senator has an equal vote. The vote of each Senator has equal weight. The vote is important at the Committee level and the Plenary. For this, I urge you to allow all Senators to participate in the proceedings of this House and at the Committee level. It is just the same way Sen. Okiya Omtatah has been allowed to participate while not aligned to either the Majority or Minority side."
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