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    "id": 354572,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Cheboi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 329,
        "legal_name": "Moses Kipkemboi Cheboi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, yesterday, this House appointed the Committee on Procedure and House Rules. Also, yesterday we received recommendations from the Committee on Selection that it will be extremely difficult for some hon. Members to belong to even one committee. Further, we also got information that many Members are quite interested and enthusiastic to at least serve in a departmental committee. We went through the work as a Committee and I want to thank the Committee because they sat until 9.30 p.m. in order to come up with the Report which we just tabled before the House. The Committee comprises 21 Members, six of them by virtue of the different offices that they hold. The Speaker is the Chairman. The Deputy Speaker, who was absent because of the issue we have been informed about, sent her apologies. We also have the first, second, third--- (Technical hitch) The Eleventh Parliament is different from any other Parliament that has been here before. We do not have the Executive in this House. We do not have Ministers and their Assistants. Therefore, all the committee positions that are available for Members are taken up by Members. Further, this House is larger than any other House that has been here before. We have 349 Members of Parliament. The slots are not enough for every one of the Members. We decided as a committee to pursue the recommendations by the Selections Committee to try and see ways of improving the numbers so that Members can participate effectively."
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