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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Limo",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kirui Limo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance to speak. I appreciate what you have actually just explained about representing the constituents in the Chamber. We actually appreciate that there is direct correlation between marketing and selling in the Chamber. It is important that we get a chance to sell our ideas to the whole Republic as well as to our constituents. I actually support this Procedural Motion because it gives sufficient time, for both the Mover and contributors, but I want to urge that we retain the tradition which we had in the last Session, where the Speaker, in his discretion will actually reduce the time. I want to urge that this time round, we do not take a lot of time; maybe, depending on the interest in the Motion in this House, we do not give many Members a chance to speak. If we reduce the time, we will have very limited time for the others to contribute. What I propose is that depending on the number of Members who have requested to contribute, we can reduce the time to, say five minutes, so that many Members contribute. Hon. Speaker, I was also hoping to get time to speak when we were discussing the Procedural Motion on Bills. It is important that when we are contributing to Motions and Bills, we have all the details from the necessary support staff. We have had very many cases in the past where analyses of Bills were not available. I hope this time round we will have analyses ready in time, so that they will improve the quality of contributions in this House. It is important that we note that there were cases where we passed Motions and Bills here and later on Members disowned them because of the fact that in the Second Reading most Members contributed good ideas which were not incorporated in the Bills because of non-appearance in the Third Reading. I would like to say that as we move on, we should put a lot of emphasis on the Third Reading."
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