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    "id": 1263055,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Mine is just a quick comment. All is not lost. We currently have 19 delegations within the precincts; 17 in the House and two in the Lounge, I am told. What I could ask of our Whips is to try and raise another five Senators and we will be good to go because we need only 24 delegations. I know that is a bit of a weird way of working but we should do better. However, what do you do in the circumstances? Sometimes I ask myself what has changed because of what the Senate Minority Leader is saying. I am used to a very vibrant House that is full of debate. That is what Senate is known for. In fact, many of our colleagues from the National Assembly are always jealous of the Senate because of the opportunity to debate. Maybe this break was needed. We hope that in the course of the break, people will re-energise and conclude all that they are normally rushing out of this House to go and transact. When it is time for Senate, you sit from 2.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I always wonder why we forget so soon. During election season, people can kill and fight for a chance to come to this House. Soon after they get the chance to be here, they want to be elsewhere and not inside the House, which is rather weird. We can proceed with the Business that is ahead of us. Should our Whips raise the other five Members that are needed in the next few minutes, we can always seek your indulgence under Standing Order No.1, to revert to the previous order and we conclude on it. It is very important Business for us to proceed on recess without concluding on it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, I have always said this to my Whip and I want to say this to my brother, Sen. Sifuna, as well; keep a list so that we know who is coming to the House and who is not. We can then just be ticking and knowing who had assured us of coming to vote. That way, it will be easier to mobilise. Allow us to proceed. Should we get these five delegations that we are waiting for, we will be good to go and we can revert and conclude on that business. That means that the people that are in should not leave the precincts of Parliament. Just be within."
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