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    "id": 441584,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I want to thank you for giving leadership to this Committee and for giving us the hindsight that has now become very useful. You helped us think through the procedures as we went through these amendments. I also want to thank hon. Members who actively participated in formulating their own rules; these are rules that we follow as Members. I was listening, for example, to hon. Kamama today and I could not help feeling his frustrations, that is, how a Member of Parliament is able to carry ten responses and yet be unable to offload them. Hon. Speaker, with these amendments, I think Cabinet Secretaries will carry their loads and come to the House to explain the various responses that they have. This will correct the imbalance and the seemingly contradiction of terms that we have had in this jurisdiction. Chairpersons of Committees will now play their rightful role of oversight. A Chairperson can sit in his place and even challenge the Cabinet Secretary. When the Chairperson talks with the Cabinet Secretary, he or she will know that the Chairperson means business because he is oversighting that same Cabinet Secretary. If these rules are adopted, we are going to see very few Cabinet Secretaries being impeached because they will know that there is a National Assembly to which they must give full and regular Reports. For the Leader of the Majority Party who might not have been there when I was moving the Motion, the rules have actually captured the Office of the Leader of the Majority Party."
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