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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. At least this morning I found my card; it got lost on 18th December, 2014. Hon. Speaker, I thank you for the wise guidance and communication you made this morning. Yesterday hon. Members raised a number of issues and now we have opened the gate. You have used precedent and practice of substantive Chairs like you, so that we move on. I want to tell my colleagues that we have started our new Session. It is a very important Session, it is the Budget cycle. We are here to serve the people of Kenya and, as you said, the first agenda at the beginning of any Session is to appoint the House Business Committee, so that we retreat to Room 9 and set the business for this afternoon and for the remaining days of the Third Session of the 11th Parliament in 2015. Now that you have solved the puzzle, or the quagmire, for me, the Minority whips and my good friend, hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi, it is good that we do not spend more time on this matter. We need to dispose of this matter and, under your leadership, retreat to Room 9. Among the serious business that has a timeline are the two constitutional Bills that we must send to the Senate. The Senate has until end of April to dispose of the Public Audit Bill, 2014 and the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Bill, 2014. These are very important Bills. If we agree, then this afternoon, through your guidance in the House Business Committee, we can start on those Bills and wait for the Budget Policy Statement and deal with all the other matters. We are far much better than we were yesterday afternoon. I am sure the list belongs to the plenary. What the leadership does is to look at the parliamentary strengths, and take into consideration our independent colleagues. So, the list is here, it belongs to the House. Now you have the chance to move an amendment and remove so and so; the list is before us; please, let us dispose of it very fast. If somebody wants to move an amendment, let him or her move it. If he or she wants to remove “X,” “Y”, or “Z” colleagues, let us do it. However, let us save time and do the work the Kenyan people have sent us here to do, The House Business Committee should be constituted very fast. We need to do the calendar for the Third Session, and also come up with the programme and the business for this week and subsequent days in the year. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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