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    "id": 757015,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I move this Motion, allow me to remind my colleagues from this side of the House that after this business, which I will request that we make brief, we will have important business under Order No.10. It actually concerns our counties and requires 24 counties to pass. The most important business of today has already been done, which is the election of Deputy Speaker, and the next one is the Motion which relates to money going to our counties. That is the reason we are here. It is unfortunate and regrettable that the other side of the House evacuated themselves from the House at a very critical moment. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, pursuant to Standing Orders 178 and 183 (3), the Senate approves the following Senators to be Members of the Senate Business Committee:- 1. Sen. Kenneth M. Lusaka -Speaker of the Senate - Chairperson 2. Sen. Onesmus Kipchumba Murkomen - Senate Majority Leader 3. Sen. Susan Kihika -Senate Majority Whip 4. Sen. Fatuma Dullo -Member 5. Sen. Mohamud Maalim Mohamed -Member 6. Sen. Sakaja Johnson Arthur -Member 7. Sen. Poghisio Samwel Losuron - Member The Senate Business Committee (SBC) is a very important committee in terms of conducting the business of this House. Even as we prepare to establish the other committees for purpose of transacting business in the Senate, the SBC plays an integral role as provided for in Standing Orders 178 and 183. The composition from the majority side of the membership of this Committee was arrived at after very thorough consultations. Considering the fact that the Majority Leader, the Majority Whip and the Speaker of the House are already provided for as members in the Standing Orders, we only had the responsibility to nominate four people to serve in this Committee. In the nomination of those four people, we made strong considerations of gender, regional and ethnic balance and political party members who are part and parcel of Jubilee Party."
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