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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Members. Hon. Timothy, I do not need to go and think deeply on this matter. It is a very straightforward one. Firstly, as you have rightly said, the Standing Orders give an opportunity to the Independent Members to form a caucus which can help them in prosecuting their interests at various levels in performance of your duty. Secondly, the Speaker ensured that Independent Members from their caucus are represented in the Committee on Selection, by advising Leader of the Majority Party and Leader of the Minority Party. You are represented by none other than the distinguished lady from your own county, your County Woman Representative, Hon. Caroline Ng’elechei. So, you are not unrepresented. Thirdly, Standing Order 174 is very clear that no Member shall be left without a committee. At the very minimum, each Member of this House must serve in one committee. From the reconstitution of committees that was brought to the House Business Committee, chaired by the Speaker and sitting Members from both sides of the House, I was satisfied that there is not a single Member of this House who was left without a single committee. Each Member has at least one committee. As to the quality of committees, that is not for the Speaker. I do not even know what quality in a committee means."
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