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    "id": 381325,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not see the problem here. First of all, you cannot summon the President or the Deputy President with all due respect to the Attorney-General emeritus, so that they can come and address us at will, when they think that there is something that they want to address. We do not need the Senate Majority Leader to facilitate a chairman of a committee. The chairman of a committee is facilitated by the Speaker and can summon anybody at any time. Secondly, all of us can attend any Committee meeting when we want to. If you think there is a matter of interest to you in the Committee on Energy, Roads and Transportation and you want to listen to the Cabinet Secretary, you can go to that Committee and listen to him or her. In fact, we want to go against the Constitution. The Constitution intended that the Executive be out of this House and now you want to bring them back. The Executive must stay where they are and can only be summoned by a Committee of the House. If this House wants to turn itself into a Committee of the Whole, and I do not know which Committee that will be, because it must first be a Standing Committee, before it can summon a Minister. But if the House wants to turn itself into a Committee, maybe there can be such a resolution, but the Speaker will not be sitting where he is. I am sure the Chairman of that Committee should be the one sitting there. Please, do not bring us what we want to run away from. There were some strengths and weaknesses in it but the country decided that the Executive should be out of this House. So, do not bring them back."
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