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    "id": 660954,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onge’ra",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Janet Ongera",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for that information. I stand guided. We have been in this House for over three-and- a-half years and have not legislated any Bill into an Act of Parliament except five of them. This is not because we have not been working. We have worked very diligently but over 18 of our Bills are lying somewhere in the National Assembly. Is it in order to fast track the work of the National Assembly? Are we here as errand boys and girls to fast track the work of the National Assembly when we know that they are sitting on our Bills? Secondly, this House is going to be judged at the end of the five year tenure by the kind of work we did as legislatures. One of our core duties is to legislate. It is not right for the National Assembly to continue sitting on our Bills yet we are fast-tracking their Bills in the Senate. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said last week, under the risk of sounding like an old record, time has come to call a spade a spade, and as the Swahili saying goes; kama ni kubaya,ni kubaya . It is high time that this House also takes drastic measures in looking at the Bills from the National Assembly."
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