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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Leader of Minority",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to second this Motion. This is routine because the House must have the Rules and Business Committee (RBC) to determine the business of the House. In our consultations, we felt that the RBC membership that was there has been doing a good job. They have been available when needed, they have been industrious in their output and we have consequently brought back the same members except the replacement of the former Senator for Kericho, who is no longer a Member of this House. I hope that we will quickly approve this list of membership of the RBC so that the first meeting can be held this afternoon to schedule and determine business for the House from tomorrow. I want to thank the Majority Leader for the kind words that he has extended to me. I want to urge him that we should fast track the Bill about the structure of the Senate. Whichever way we want to take, we have put a lot of work in trying to create this Senate to be a real Senate. We should see the product of the Committee led by Murkomen become fruitful. As a Senate, this House must be clothed sufficiently to discharge its responsibilities. Out there, wherever you go, you hear the address of wananchi in their most innocent terms – they say Members of County Assembly (MCA), Member of Parliament (MP), Senator and so on. They even do not know that a Senator is a Member of Parliament. It is only fair and just that this House being the second Senate in the history of this country - the first one having been wished away by those who wanted the country to go to single party politics - this Senate must play a critical role in recreating a truly vibrant Senate that is a House of revision. The Senate should be a House where every Bill from the National Assembly, like it is done in all jurisdictions, must come here for the final word. That is the only way we can strengthen devolution, the new content of the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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