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    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. Some of us have been in this House for too long to appreciate some of the things we do. I want to give some statements of fact. When amendments come to this House, they can be carried by the House or rejected. On the basis of that, then you lose your amendment. That is position No.1. Two, when committees bring amendments to this House, it is not a must that we approve them. In the past, we have rejected committee’s amendments. There are times we have requested the Chair of the Committee to do further amendments to accommodate Members’ input into the Bill. The problem we have here is very simple. The problem which is being expressed by the Members of the Departmental Committee on Health is that these Members sat for two weeks. After sitting for two weeks and interacting with stakeholders through public participation, there were things they were able to build consensus on. On the basis of that consensus building, they appended their signatures to the Report saying that both sides – the Majority and Minority - agree to make certain amendments. What I would have imagined is that those amendments would be brought to the Committee of the whole House as Committee amendments by the Chair and then the rest of us who do not belong to the Committee can also move our amendments. Now, it is the work of the Chair to convince the House, both the Majority and the Minority sides, to support these amendments. If we do not support, he loses it. It is the work of us on the other side to do the same. The issue of concern is that, at times, we have witnessed in this House where Members do not vote on the basis of objectivity. We become more of voting machines. We have made progress with amendments. I will be prosecuting mine, but I ask the Members to use objectivity. When it comes to proposed amendment that is good for the country, we vote for it irrespective of whether it is the Committee’s amendment or whether it is an individual Member’s amendment."
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