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    "id": 381747,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ethuro",
    "speaker_title": "The Speaker",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 158,
        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": " Order, hon. Members! Let us just dispose of this. Let me start from the last contribution in reference to Sen. G.G. Kariuki. Our Standing Orders do not provide for what you do if you find yourself in a list that you think you do not belong. So, the Chair cannot help you there. But the Standing Orders have also an avenue called ‘amendments.’ So, if you really feel strongly that you do not want to belong to the Committee, all you need to do is to bring an amendment to the Chair and I will duly grant you the opportunity to prosecute that amendment to delete your name. If the rest of the Senators allow it, then your name will be deleted. But every Senator belongs to the House and every other Senator will give you an opportunity to serve if he or she thinks that you have a contribution to make. It is up to the entire House to make the final decision. It might not even be your personal decision, Sen. G.G. Kariuki, because you may wish to make an amendment but if the House refuses to grant you that amendment, what do you do? So, the only thing you can do is that, if the Committee is constituted, then you could just boycott the meetings; then it will be reported that you have been absent for a number of sittings. That is the surest way to get your name off the Committee. But it also appears to me, just as much as Sen. G.G. Kariuki wants his name out, that same argument is basically the opposite of the argument brought about by the Senate Majority Leader, because then Sen. G.G. Kariuki comes from the Majority and the Majority side wants more membership. So, obviously, it is a contradiction; desiring more membership for the Majority, and the Majority wants to become a minority by seeking to have a name from the Majority side deleted."
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