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    "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, allow me to congratulate you for making a very comprehensive statement in so far as the issue of statements is concerned. I would like to inform the House that the Senate Minority Leader and the Senate Majority Leader have been invited by the Liaison Committee to attend the same meeting. Once we get the direction on this matter, it will make the business of the Senate more organised. As we speak, that Liaison Committee meeting must consider to what extent a chairman can defend a statement that has been signed vis-à-vis a statement that has been interrogated by a committee and tabled in this House as a report. I would like to defend the chairmen because I saw a story elsewhere misquoting you to some extent and I know it is not evidence in this House. They are criticising the chairmen in the House saying that they have not done enough. I doubt if it is really their fault. It is we who are using the parliamentary processes and systems to respond to the presidential system of government. Sen. Wetangula used to ask us what committee system means. To what extent does a committee function on behalf of the House? If you look at all the debates and inquiries that have been done in the United States of America (USA), because that is where we borrowed the presidential system of government from, you will realise that in all the reports about Facebook Inquiry and all the inquiries related to security in the USA, nobody talks about how the question was answered on the Floor of the Senate in the USA. All we hear is about how the Senate committee was inquiring into a particular issue and the report that was given to the House. I think the ultimate objective of this process should be to return a proper presidential system of government with a proper working committee system. From where I stand and speaking of my colleagues from the Minority side, we will be there and ready to shift that. Perhaps that will be your greatest contribution as the second Speaker of the Senate. It would be said that during your time, a proper working committee system was established, which responds to the Constitution; which recognises the presidential system of government. I thank you."
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