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    "id": 1396861,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Marakwet East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kangogo Bowen",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to agree with what the Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. Ichung’wah, has said. That Chairpersons of Committees like me - I am the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Blue Economy and Irrigation, as we budget we should engage ministries, oversight and work within ceilings. After we are done in our Committees, we present our budget estimates to the Budget and Appropriations Committees, who present them to the National Treasury. As the Leader of the Majority Party said, many times, we pass the budget when there are five Members on the other side and 10 on this other side. We do not interrogate it including some Committee Members. For example, a Member of my Committee can deny our budget on the Floor of theHouse. This is because he was not keen when it was being presented. I want to request Hon. Members to be keen. Chairs of Departmental Committees should own their budget. So, when it is altered by the National Treasury or the Budget and Appropriations Committee, they can deny it on the Floor of the House. So, that Budget and Appropriations Committee or the National Treasury does not mutilate their budget. We should be allowed to move amendments on the Floor of the House, to agree or reject them. Sometimes, when you raise an amendment, you are told to first agree with the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations, who might refuse and it is thrown away. I want all of us not to just sit here and say Aye or Nay. Yet, we do not know why we are saying so."
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