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    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, first and foremost, I apologise to the House through you with a lot of humility and remorse because I was late in coming to the Chamber. I got constrained and I truly apologise. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to address myself quickly to some of the issues that have been raised by hon. Senators with regard to the business of this House. First and foremost, let me start by admitting that we have had challenges with regard to our legislative work since 2013 until now. It is not true that this Senate has not done its work. I want to applaud Sen. (Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o and I am glad he comes from the Minority side. He has demonstrated that we have done quite a bit of work in this House. We have had numerous Government- sponsored Bills and numerous Private Members Bills. The challenge could arise from the fact that some of the Bills have been stuck in the National Assembly. That is a challenge we must accept and continue to engage to see how to improve that relationship. Secondly, the relationships between Houses or Chambers of a bicameral Parliament are difficult everywhere in the world. Last year I spoke to a colleague Senator from Australia. He told me that the challenges that this Senate is facing around fighting for more money to the devolved units and the relationship with the “Lower House” are the same challenges the Senate of the Republic of Australia is facing nearly 175 years after the creation of that Parliament. So, you cannot expect that the relationship of a bicameral system in the context of Kenya which has been a highly centralized nation will be easy because there are centralists at all corners."
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