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    "content": "authority of the Senate as spelt out in the Constitution. There are other functions within the Constitution that may require us to make resolutions. For example, the question of suspending county governments is a function that is shared between the President and the Senate. Those are not legislative functions. Therefore, the honourable Member, who is my colleague in the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations has come with a Motion that I support fully. This happens many times, all over the world, where legislators go beyond sitting in a Chamber because of the authority of the institution they represent and the office that they hold to resolve problems that confront the nation. I believe that this Senate, during this period that we are trying to help the County Government of Isiolo, we should find opportunity to help ourselves. Sen. Wamatangi put it very well. I do not want to be a cry baby as he said but it is time that we sat and discussed. In an institutional arrangement like this, people fight for space. If you leave your space, someone else will occupy it. The Senate is ceding space every other day. Let us put the authority of this institution where it belongs. We have competent people who should work in a by-partisan process to resolve some of the problems that confront us. I beg to support."
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