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    "id": 758906,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Washiali",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 151,
        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
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    "content": "This is more or less a procedural Motion that guides us in terms of when the Members will be sitting and when they will be going on recess. As a practice of this House, it has been like this so that we can tell when we are going for recess and when the business of the House will be resuming. For starters, this was necessary because before the House started approving its own calendar, it used to be approved by the Executive and imposed on Parliament. Because of the independence of the House, we have chosen to be moving this Motion so that we can decide when we go on recess and when we resume for the business of the House. For the new Members, after the approval of this Motion, this Calendar will be put in the Kenya Gazette so that you are able to plan your activities because it will not be easy for one to just wake up and change the Calendar. Therefore, with that in mind, I want you to look at the Calendar as proposed by the House Business Committee (HBC) so that when you are either supporting or opposing, you will know exactly what you are debating about. The Calendar has been attached. It takes us up to February next year. After February, after the long recess, the HBC will give us a proposal for another calendar that will be brought to be approved by the House for the rest of 2018. I ask Members to look at this calendar favourably so that they can support and have it approved as the House Calendar from now up to 18th February 2018. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move and ask Hon. Martha Wangari, Member for Gilgil, to second the Motion. For starters, Martha Wangari is a former Nominated Senator. She was one of the senior Members of UDF, a party in which I was a leader. I want to give her a chance to second the Motion."
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