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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 rise to support the statements and the contributions by the Senate Minority Leader. However, before I do that, I want to assure him and the Senate that the Senate Majority Leader is not frustrated, cannot be frustrated and will not be frustrated because there is nobody with the capacity to frustrate the Senate Majority Leader. This is just for the avoidance of doubt. Having said so, I want to go on record that I support the sentiments of the Senate Minority Leader which, I think, is the feeling of the entire Senate. Somebody somewhere is breaking the law. Whoever that person is, the law must be applied against that person or institution. In particular, with regard to Bills coming to this House, or the Lower House, the determination of this is made by the two Speakers jointly. If Article 110(3) is not operating, then we have to make it operate. Secondly, as Sen. Wetangula has said, there is no limitation as to which House a Bill can originate from. We cannot be a Chamber of lamentations or a Chamber of complaining. We want to see this House going forward and you can rely on the support of the Senate Majority Leader. I highly doubt that the problem we are experiencing here is a systemic problem. It is not systemic. There are one or two people somewhere who may have sat and imagined that, somehow, they can subvert the Constitution and get away with it. Going forward let the Bills flow. Let the Bills flow to the Table of this House. Let them be legislated. How that will be resolved eventually is the same way that other crises have been resolved. Without much ado, I would like to say that the Office of the Senate Majority Leader will support the mandate of this Senate without any reservation whatsoever."
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