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    "id": 759514,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/759514/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Motion on the approval of the Senate Calendar for this Session. I congratulate you, as my colleagues have done, for being appointed to the Speaker’s Panel. I am sure, even though the seat has been described as a “big seat” the brains behind the person seating on the seat are bigger than the seat. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to note that it was in the Senate’s plan in the Eleventh Parliament to deliberate as a House and see how we can accommodate the Senate sittings in the counties. It had been planned that we would visit the counties, have sittings, collect views from the counties and hear the issues that arise especially when we are interacting with the Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) in the counties because their roles complement the Senate. In the formulation of our calendar and as we proceed with its implementation, it will be important that we evaluate how we are going to accommodate this idea. If I can recollect, in the last Parliament, so many counties struggled to bring issues to this House that were of interest to their counties. It would be easier if this happens. Most of the MCAs who have been elected are new. They could be struggling like other Members of Parliament (MPs) to get accustomed to the House procedures of legislating. By the time they catch up, the wheels of implementation of policies and the"
}