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    "id": 601054,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as Sen. Orengo has said, this House must hold itself to the highest standards of decorum. We accept votes when we lose in this House. We, as the Opposition, take it in decorum. However, where votes are manifestly reported in a manner that is different, we do not accept. If Sen. (Dr.) Machage was the Chairperson at that point, decides that the vote he took is false and does not want to report, he has disowned it. Even though the Standing Orders do not anticipate so, there are ways in which the Speaker must interrogate the rules progressively. That is why the Chairperson has broad powers under the Standing Order No.1. The Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Deputy Majority Leader, in their conscience know that the “Nays” vote was louder. We are not here as a joke; we are here as products of 50 years of humiliation. We are here in the Senate to make things right for our counties. That is why we have equal votes for all the counties. Therefore, when my vote that represents the popular voice of the people of Mombasa County that comprises of 1.3 million people can be abrogated by a simple discretion, then we have a problem in this House. I beg you to rule that if Sen. (Dr.) Machage cannot report what he chaired in the Committee of the Whole, then that vote is null and void."
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