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    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I had not finished making my remarks, but I had said that many of these requests came from the Minority side. There are certain internal things that have taken place there, including the loss of one of the Senators and, therefore, there could be changes which do not replace that Senator here because, this matter came to the Rules and Business Committee of this House and the explanation given was that, for example, there are certain temporary replacements which were done and which, of course, do not require the full House to debate and approve, with the permission of the Speaker. If that has taken place, as I am aware, then it means that internal balancing in the Committees has to be relooked at afresh if certain people have been told, for example, to take up provisionally the positions that were held in Committees by the late Sen. Mutula Kilonzo, et cetera . So, I think there is a valid argument here and that was explained in the Rules and Business Committee to its satisfaction. Therefore, as I have said, it is upon this House to query further. But as the Senate Majority Leader, my business here is to represent this request as approved by the Rules and Business Committee; as an agent of the Rules and Business Committee and not as an agent of the political parties from which the membership are drawn. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to move this Motion and request Sen. Dan Mwazo to second it."
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