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    "id": 1446160,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is the request that I wanted to make to you. I would wish to remind Members, if I could get the attention of the House, this is something we agreed on before we began this Motion and we cannot appear to be backtracking. We agreed that because all of us could not sit down and craft the resolutions or the thoughts that were in the minds of people before the Motion was tabled, we will have members of the technical team who are our staffers, to sit down and wrap up all the thoughts of Members as they contributed to this Motion into actionable points. More so, that is what has been done. We agreed that towards the end of the Motion, we would provide the opportunity for one of us amongst the last people who have not spoken to the Motion to move the Motion in an amended form. Procedurally, people will be allowed to speak to it because that is our procedure, but remember we had an agreement. I do not know why people would want again to speak to the same points that they had raised earlier, which is what has informed this. This is to the best of my knowledge and that is the position that we took and proposed to the House. Additionally, even today at the Senate Business Committee (SBC), we proposed that once the amended Motion is placed, if any Senators have not spoken to this Motion in general, then they should be allowed. However, if there is none in the House as I can see-- - there is a list of about six or seven Senators only who have not spoken to the Motion since we began this particular exercise--- then we proceed to call on the Mover to reply and conclude on this business. Otherwise, it will look ridiculous to us that for two weeks, we have been speaking on the same thing and we want to begin to repeat ourselves. I want to beg the indulgence of the House because we agreed on that before we began this Motion."
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