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    "id": 1516702,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I have sat here with patience as I have been in this House for 10 years and yet today, I am the last to speak, even though I was in the House from 2.30 p.m. Speakers need to put in some algorithm because those of us who have been around can sometimes benefit the House out of our experience. I did not sit here to score political points or to speak politics. I took time to encourage the SBC, the Motion which I support and the Members that have been proposed. We were in Naivasha just last week to reflect on the performance of the Senate and its mid-term assessment. The time from election to today is equal to the time from today to the next elections. We must ask ourselves whether we have achieved anything significant. We only have one year and as you can see, political drums have started sounding and it might be difficult for us to achieve much in the remaining period. When we were in Naivasha, unfortunately by the time we were making the resolutions, if someone had called for the quorum bell, that meeting would have been dissolved. We were a few of us. I want it to be on record and I want to put it to the public that there are three significant issues that the Senate discussed and which were supposed to be brought to the SBC for fast-tracking. With regard to the formula for allocation for revenue, we resolved that the Senate will not look at a situation where any county gets less than what it has been getting. When it came to reporting on what we did in Naivasha, issues that happened during the cocktail were more evident and prominent than the issues that happened during our working meetings. Madam Temporary Speaker, we must give that assurance. There was also a proposal that the SBC should process and find a bipartisan team away from the Committee on Finance and Budget to process the proposals from the CRA. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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