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    "content": "(a) The Speaker as the Chairperson; (b) The Senate Majority Leader; and, (c) The Senate Minority Leader. Part “d” gives the Senate leadership up to nine positions of other Senators from different parties as has been the tradition. The issue of precedence in Parliament is very critical. We set a pattern that will be referred to for, say, 20 years from today. Even as we sit in this House, we see Senators referring to parliamentary sessions of yesteryears, not that it is in law, but it was decided by the Speaker or some pattern was developed. If the law anticipated that the Rules and Business Committee stands for all the time, then I do not think this provision was important. If it is a matter of institutional memory, those offices that are present, including yours as the Chairperson, should be enough to guide the House and new Committee. I argue that because we need to see different faces also. We need to see a person with disabilities, minorities and the face of Kenya every time this is done. That can only be fair and justifiable. This is not the first time we are expressing these sentiments on the Floor. We were told to let it go and that the issue would be addressed next time. We are in the fourth year of the five-year term and this, definitely, was never anticipated to happen. I think that keeps some Senators in some category; that they will never serve in the Rules and Business Committee, which is a very important experience in the life of a legislator. When we come back in the next Senate, we will follow what we did this term. This will be one of the precedents and pattern. I beg to oppose this Motion."
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