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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. The Rules and House Business Committee is the most important Committee of this House. In fact, if this Committee was in China, it would be called the “Central Committee.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Senate will succeed or fail based on the performance of this Committee. We are going to be a weak or a strong Senate, principally on the performance of this Committee. Right now, this Senate is just an afterthought; the Senate is considered just a mere appendage of the National Assembly. That is why we are sitting in this makeshift arrangement that you see here today. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have the Members of this Committee to assert the integrity and the dignity of the Senate as a House. It is also the responsibility of this Committee which you Chair to make sure that the Senate is accorded its proper place as the apex body of the devolution institutions in this country. We cannot perform the functions we are supposed to perform at the Senate with demoralized Members, understaffed Senate, underpaid members and underpaid staff. It is your duty as the Chairman of this Committee to make sure that there is proper working environment for both the Senators and staff for us to discharge our duties effectively. So, I would like to support this Motion so that this Committee gets to work immediately and makes sure that the Senate is not an appendage of any other body and that it plays its role at the centre of the politics of this country. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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