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    "id": 660967,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "June 2, 2016 SENATE DEBATES 19 Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to inform Sen. Elachi that being a leader in this House that there was a very important Bill that was signed recently by His Excellency the President concerning the youth. That Bill did not come to the Senate and the reason was that we delay the work of the National Assembly. When somebody says that a Bill on youth does not concern the Senate, we need to ask several questions. This is because when it has been signed, it becomes an Act of Parliament. How can you give an excuse for things that are ideally unparliamentary on how we should relate? It is now 12 months before the next General Election and the Senate Majority Leader, you are the one who carries the burden on your back for leading a House that passed only 6 Bills into Law for the entire period we have been in the Senate. The tragedy about it is that the works of the Senators sitting in this House, who have worked tirelessly in generating several Bills, has been put onto the back burners. This is because we have been fastracking the work of our sister House. The idea of being a gentleman for too long is going to be detrimental. We cannot sit for so long when we know that they are sitting on our constitutional right of legislation. You can give excuses about constitutional deadlines, when we all know that there was no reason for extending those deadlines under Articles 261and 262 of the Constitution. We are now going to fastrack our Community Land Bill which is sitting in another House and another version is here, yet you are telling us to fastrack. We are asking who our Senate Majority is, so that he can stand up."
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