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    "id": 941280,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can see the consultations have gone higher! I am happy with the Senate for one thing; though we have our concerns with the Executive; most of us here have concerns about how this House has been treated, including allowing the national Government to borrow huge sums of money, give them to counties in form of loans and grants and then deny this House the resources to oversight this money. This is ridiculous. As a House, we have been pushing that the oversight resources are not for personal gain. They are to ensure that the borrowed resources will benefit future generations. Therefore, I am asking my colleagues, that we continue in the path that we have shown as the Senate that we can rise above our other concerns we have with the Executive and the National Assembly and objectively work with the national Treasury to give them room to borrow a loan that comes down up to an interest rate of one per cent. That is really my request to my colleagues. Mr. Speaker, Sir, even as we borrow these loans and raise these resources, we must resource the Senate to carry out its oversight responsibility. We will continue insisting. It is not about Sen. Murkomen or an individual Senator; it is about the office of the Senator and the Senate being able to oversight. You cannot pour large sums of money in the Universal Health Care (UHC), including medical equipment, which Senators have no resource to investigate in their counties."
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