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    "id": 868140,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mumias East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Benjamin Washiali",
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
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    "content": "I hope Members will give me some attention. We have experienced that some committees bring reports to this Floor yet some of their Members are not present during their debate. I urge members of committees to be at the forefront of debating their reports that are brought to the Floor of the House. That is so that they may help Parliament and the Committee of the whole House to understand what is in those Reports. I also request you to allow me to caution chairs of committees now that we have started this Session. Chairs have used parliamentary leadership as a shield to frustrate members of committees many times. I announce here that if there are any members of a committee who fail to take action on their chairmen, I will, as the Whip of the Majority Party, allow it to pass. We have had cases where chairmen run to the offices of leadership for protection whenever there is a problem in their committees. I want to make it very clear that the leadership of the Majority Party will not be ready to protect errant chairmen; those who are not compliant with their committee membership."
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