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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, Members will appreciate that Thursday mornings are usually not our regular Sitting Day. It is reserved for other parliamentary work and Cabinet affairs. However, because of the facts and best of intentions, this Parliament will not go beyond next week which gives us only basically tomorrow afternoon. The last Sitting Day is 10th of January which is Thursday next week. This only gives us three sittings next week, plus tomorrow yet we have other business. The House Business Committee (HBC) decided to ask Members to allow the creation of one extra session which gives us an extra three hours to transact business that we need to do so that, even as we go home - and I would justifiably say we have done a lot of work - we do not end up with the cake without the icing. That is basically what we would end up doing. We have done a lot of work but there is still some very crucial business that needs to come before this House. There are some names that need to be cleared that are still being processed in the Committees. There are some appointments that need to be cleared by this House and we took it upon ourselves and championed the new Constitution that required that this House be the one to approve some of those appointments. If we do not do it, who will do it? I think that is the reason we are asking; let us create extra time. Let us work the extra day and if need be, if Members feel that we should also sit on Friday, Saturday or Sunday like we saw the US Congress sitting last Sunday, so be it until we clear every business that is before us. Then we can go home feeling proud for what we have done for Kenya and for our constituencies. That is what they would have wanted us to do. With those words, I beg to move and ask one of the very strong Members of HBC, Ms. Martha Karua, to second."
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