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    "content": "Members of this House. They work hard to think through the issues that they want to be passed for the purpose of their counties. I talked to my colleague, Hon. Duale and I was disappointed. Yesterday I was sad because he asked on the Floor of the House why the Senate is given a budget. This kind of thinking must cease. People should not think that because I am diplomatic and I pursue a diplomatic approach, it makes this House weak. We have a serious wild card with Sen. Orengo as leaders of this House. The moment we will put that card on the table, people will listen. At the moment, in the spirit of the hand shake, conciliation, mediation and all the good spirits, I am giving the National Assembly the last chance so that we can pursue a process that can accept and obey the constitutional status of this office. This House needs to agree with the National Assembly to have timeframes within which a Bill can be introduced in either Houses. We do not have a problem if a Bill fails; it is not a must that it has to be passed. What it is important is that, it must not be inordinately delayed by a small group of people at the expense of the whole House having an opportunity to debate and come to a conclusion of either passing it or not, or take it to the Mediation Committee or not. As I have said before, those who are shortsighted must be reminded that the Senate is here to stay. The Members who are here are temporary, but the Senate is permanent. It is as permanent as the Constitution. Those who doubt what I am saying need to look at the constitution of this House. They will realise that five to six Members were Members of the National Assembly in the last Parliament. In the National Assembly, we also have five to six Members who were Senators in the last Parliament. We are all transient. We can change where we want to serve if we are given an opportunity to serve the people of Kenya, but we must continue to respect the Constitution. In the leadership tenure of Sen. James Orengo and I, we will not allow this House to be put to shame. We will call this House for another Kamukunji to update Members on the next steps. If we realise that there are people who cannot listen to Sen. Haji, Sen. Beth Mugo and Sen. (Prof.) Sam Ongeri who are elders here, we will pursue other legal and constitutional processes as we did in the year 2013. It restored the integrity and constitutional responsibility of this House in as far as the finance Bills that are related to counties are concerned. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support this Bill and congratulate Sen. Cheragei, the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, for bringing this Bill and doing a fantastic job with his colleagues."
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