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    "id": 759477,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I stand guided. As I was saying, I am still coming to terms with the adjustments that the Senate sits on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. Clearly, as legislators we have a serious role of ensuring that we have enough business to conduct. The Senate has a slow start being the third Senate in the history of our Republic and the second under the new Constitution. However, when I look at the Supplementary Order Paper, I realise that there are quite a number of Notices of Motions that are yet to be properly tabled before the House. I would want us to indulge ourselves; that based on our deliberations in Naivasha, where we were able to find out that we have about 60 Bills, we need to revive them and take advantage to populate our Calendar with a lot of business. Madam Temporary Speaker, I commend the fact that this Calendar anticipates the repeat Presidential Elections which have now been gazetted to take place on 26th, October, 2017 and Members, who are also politicians, require to converse and mobilize the electorate to participate in these elections. However, even as I support, some of us - and I believe that I am speaking on behalf of quite a number of Members present - have the gusto and the willingness and fire in the belly to participate in the proceedings of the Senate. So, the recess that will take place from the 28th September, 2017 to 9th October, 2017 appears to be unnecessary because we have just come from the induction retreat and only after a week, we are supposed to go back and keep ourselves busy until that time. Madam Temporary Speaker, may be, this is the time that we, as Senators, are supposed to be perusing through the various ideas that have been proposed to us by the people that we represent to make them legislative proposals within the ambit of the various tools that have been given to us by the Standing Orders in terms of Petitions, Motions and Statements, just like the one that has been canvassed on the Floor and other such avenues so that we can truly represent not only the entities which are counties"
}