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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to support the Motion and particularly, thank the Committee led by the distinguished Senator for Homa Bay County. Generally, this Committee is doing very well. In fact, if you look at the reports we are dealing with, comparatively going to the past, we will be talking about reports of accounts of seven or eight years ago. I think we are catching up and this reporting omnibus is also enabling us to deal with these reports in a more effective manner and faster than we would normally do. I thank the Committee and I hope you continue with that good work. Having sat in some sessions of this Committee, I think of all the parliamentary committees - I am talking about Committees of both the National Assembly and the Senate - this Committee has very talented Members. When they interrogate public officials who appear before them led by governors, at the end of the day, the Senate is put in very good light. More importantly, this Committee is important in the sense that one of the most fundamental principles for which modern democracies are established, is to ensure that that old principle which was very well established by those who lived in the American colonies fighting against British imperialism, talking about no taxation without representation. That particular doctrine has been crystalised in our Constitution. It is not only in the European Constitution, but more importantly, in this current Constitution. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, whenever we are considering these reports, it must be remembered that this is one of the principal ways in which Parliament and the Senate are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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