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    "content": "be separate voting in each House and the voice of each Member in each House will have a say. There are required timelines that we must abide by. By June, we must have the final Members serving in the EALA. Again, the Committee still stands to vet applicants. We will oversight the process until the final day when we will have results in place. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I had the able representation of Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. in the House. I do not want to belabour the point so that he can also make two or three statements regarding the same rules. In cognizant of the time, I would like to talk about how I served this Senate in many committees. I am greatly honoured to have served in many select committees on impeachment and proposed amendments to the Constitution among others. In most cases we were with Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. I am privileged to have been selected to serve in the Committee. I do not take it for granted or that it is a right. I appreciate the House and especially the leadership of this House for believing in my abilities to serve particularly in the EALA committee that is asserting the position of the Senate. I am saying this in the context of the debate we have just had in so far as how Bills have been moving from the National Assembly to the Senate and the constitutionality of Bills that are being ignored from the House like the Appropriation Bill. My suggestion is that those of us in the leadership including me must employ more of political persuasion and engagement to ensure the strength of the House is maintained and to avoid a lot of antagonism and processes of courts that would delay service delivery at the local level. As a leader in this House and on Jubilee side, I promise you that I will employ whatever political persuasions I have to ensure that we take the easiest route which is dialogue to solve the impasse in so far as the Division of Revenue Bill is concerned, so that all of us walk in the track and continue pursuing our political agendas that are very important for the public. In the next Senate, I will be greatly honoured to serve in various committees. On this one, I am more than happy to have done the work I have done. I have no doubt that I will be back here in August to continue serving. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to invite Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. to second this important Motion. I thank you."
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