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    "id": 483714,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/483714/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "No! I think the similarities between the Kenya National Assembly and the Senate are the same. The Senate in the US is representing regions and states just as the Senate in Kenya, which is supposed to represent the counties. That is why you have an equal number of senators across the US. The smallest State has a senator. The biggest State is California. The senators represent the States. All the States are equal. If you look at the establishment of the House of Representatives in the US, it was supposed to represent the people. That is why they have proportional representation. They always have fixed number of seats and they have this thing called gerrymandering. When one State’s population goes up, the number of seats moves to that place. New York at one point had the highest number of seats. But the highest number of seats is now in California because California now has a bigger population. So, the House was established to represent the people and the Senate was established to represent the regions. The Pennyslivian Conference was very clear on that. In fact, at the beginning, there was no Senate in the US. The Senate only came afterwards after the federalists complained of having somebody to represent their States. But, at the beginning, everybody agreed to have the House similar to the National Assembly and it represents the proportionate of the people. They represent the people. We can talk about a lot of things about the Senate and the National Assembly in Kenya. I always feel like they lose their meaning of what they are supposed to represent. They are supposed to represent the regions. As I said, be that as it may, even if we were to go this way, we must clearly state what Parliament is. If we were to borrow from the US, the National Speaker of the Parliament comes ahead of the Senator. John Boehner is ahead of Patrick Lee and there is a reason for that. If you look at the governors in all those protocols, though not legal---"
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