{"id":914679,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/914679/?format=json","text_counter":346,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Suba North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona","speaker":{"id":376,"legal_name":"Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona","slug":"millie-odhiambo-mabona"},"content":"From the onset, I support and encourage our young Members who are here that even as you are given the opportunity, it is not because the Chair is biased, but because of a number of reasons which are very parliamentary. One of which is that I am in the House and you cannot give somebody an opportunity unless they are in the House. The other being that I am a ranking Member. When the other speaker was speaking, she said that you must have strict adherence to the law, but also practice of other parliaments. I hope you can actually enable other Members of Parliament to travel to other countries especially the USA from which we have borrowed our system. If you sit in a parliamentary committee in the US, even if you watch on CNN, they will always give priority to a ranking Member. They will say that that is a ranking Member of the committee. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."}