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    "id": 965378,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this matter raised by my distinguished nephew, the Senator for Nairobi City County, is not coming on this Floor for the first time; we have raised it before. I believe that the level of thinking that Sen. Sakaja had in bringing this was to ask the Senate Majority Leader why he is hurrying up with so much gusto on a Bill from the National Assembly, when our Bills are not even being looked at in the other House. They are gathering dust in the office of the Majority Leader of the National Assembly or in some office somewhere. If we were having a push and pull from opposite sides, one would blame this impasse on bad or destructive politics. The Majority Leaders in the National Assembly and the Senate are from the same party. The Speakers of both Houses are sponsored by the same party. The majority of Members of each functioning Committee are also from the same party. If the procedural administrative structures are not working, at least the leadership of the party in authority can use extra legal and judicial process to get things done. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, lamentations are not enough. I have sworn here before that if our Bills cannot see the light of day in the National Assembly, then we have no business processing their Bills here. It means quid pro quo ; an eye for an eye."
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