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    "id": 424325,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "February 26, 2014 SENATE DEBATES 17 The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. We stand guided and we rest that matter there. One day, Sen. Murungi will be given an opportunity to have his say on this issue. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I second this Motion, I want to urge that the Motion language be made clearer. When you say that the Mover and the Senator replying will be limited to 30 minutes, in this kind of Motion, invariably it is the Senate Leader of Majority who is the Mover and the Senate Leader of Minority who is the Seconder. If it is our deputies, they still hold the substantive office to do that. Now, when you now go on to again reflect the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders and give them much less time, apart from being tautologous, it does not quite make much sense. I thought that we should simply have said “the Mover and the Responder get 30 minutes. Whoever is moving, even if it is Sen. (Prof.) Lesan, he will be moving it on behalf of the Senate Majority Leader and if it is Sen. Khaniri speaking from this side, he will be speaking and responding on behalf of the Senate Minority Leader. So, if that tautologous language is cleaned, it will make the Motion cleaner, clearer and more helpful to the proceedings of the House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I invite – after the Question has been proposed – maybe Sen. Murkomen to Move an amendment to clean up the language so that the Motion is more helpful. I beg to second."
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