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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, but, further, with regard to Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale’s point, it is not just the Koigi Report. We have volumes and volumes of work on harambee, some of which I did when I was at the university. But now, we want to use this material for purposes of lawmaking. I think that it is important that we realize that the lawmaking process must use some raw materials that exist, like documents and so on. So, that really should not be reason not to do this. It is much more of a reason to access that material and use it for the purposes for which this Motion is intended. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the United States both the Senate and Congress itself are always there to make law. Quite often when somebody has an idea for writing a Bill, he approaches colleagues in the Senate or Congress to work on it. There are people who would offer to do Bills by themselves, like Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has just done a Bill for the House. You can do it yourself, but in my own preference, this is an issue where a self- propelled Bill would not be as rich as a Bill in which a small group of Senators do this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, let us open ourselves to the fact that our work as lawmakers cannot be impeded by putting a rule that we can only establish so many select and ad hoc committees. We cannot do that. We will have to create as many ad hoc committees as possible for purposes of lawmaking, because we are here to make law. I do not think that the number of ad hoc committees is something that should be frightening to the Senate. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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