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    "id": 982207,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "end up debating the Bills here if they did not go through the normal constitutional procedure that requires all Bills to go through the two Speakers? Mr. Speaker, Sir, we do not want to act in futility. The question I think Sen. M. Kajwang’ asked and Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve tried to follow up on is valid. Your leadership and that of the SBC will be required to interrogate this issue so that we do not do things for the sake of it. Sen. (Dr.) Zani has moved many Bills here. I was in the committee in the last term that dealt with the issue of natural resources. We did a fantastic job. They went up to Australia. We went for groundwork up to a place called Fluorspar. We visited Turkana and many other places. We came up with a fantastic Bill. It went to the National Assembly, they said it was a money Bill and it was shelved somewhere. A similar Bill was brought and passed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if this House wants to restore its former glory--- I know that in the last term on several occasions we stood for what we believed in. We are living in this town. I can see we are sliding to some small corners or cocoons of small political interests. If we go there in this session, we will achieve nothing at the end of the term. We would rather as well allow other people to do things out there, they bring them here and we just send them like a conveyer belt and go home for the next election which is in less than two and a half years. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the choice is for this House to sit down and ensure that the business of this House and our contributions will be so consequential that they will be read many years down the line; that there were men and women who stood for the right thing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move and ask the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Orengo to second."
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