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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to also support the Motion being debated this afternoon on the Report of Procedures and House Rules Committee. Hon. Speaker, I remember the sitting of the House Business Committee (HBC) actually initiated or originated the need of Procedures and House Rules Committee to sit urgently and review our Standing Orders to help and accommodate some of the actions that we are just about to take. Therefore, I want to agree with this Committee that these changes if adopted by this House take effect immediately. Hon. Speaker, I agree with the Committee’s suggestion that we restrict membership to committees especially departmental committees to not more than two which again was already in our Standing Orders. Even seating in two departmental committees is going to be a tall order in this Parliament and that is what I have realised. This is because if you are lucky to get a departmental committee, you would probably get another select committee or another House Procedures Committee. The other thing that I wanted to say regarding the proposed amendments is that we have made very modest adjustments to the Standing Orders because we have two competing interests that we were trying to balance. One is to try as much as possible to place our Members in at least two committees so that there is no discrimination. As I said yesterday, some Members would have found themselves in two committees and others in one which could have exposed the leadership of this House to a lot of condemnation, criticism and even raw emotions."
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