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    "content": "The reality of scarcity of resources is a matter that is being felt across all the agencies involved in any budgetary process, including households. In line with this understanding, the Budget and Appropriations Committee has risen above the level and reduced the Budget of Parliament in some areas such as foreign travel allocations in order to reallocate funds to areas of more priorities. This was a painful decision but had to be taken. Kenyans must appreciate that hard times call for such painful decisions. If the Budget and Appropriations Committee can raid the pocket and coffers of Parliament and reallocate resources meant for parliamentary work, including a huge slash on the budget line of foreign travel and other lines, that is an indication that even Parliament has realised that we are facing hard times. Therefore, I urge my colleagues that in realisation of this, we should have an understanding that we have also to rein in the escalating expenditure of Parliament as an institution."
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