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    "id": 982237,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/982237/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Zani",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Zani",
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    "content": "On the issue of Article 113 (3) of the Constitution and its progression, we are held up. This is an issue that started with the 11th Parliament, and I remember it has been commented about. The Committee that was set up - and I think Sen. Murkomen was the Chair and Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr a Member--- I remember we went and met for a whole morning at the New Stanley Hotel. We spoke about the issue of making sure that the Senate becomes the Upper House, at least giving it the teeth to bite as a legislative House. We came up with that Committee that was to come up with specific recommendations. I have learnt today that those recommendations were actually given out. I wish we had met again as a whole House to go through specific recommendations and figure out how to push that agenda. The agenda for the Senate has been lost. It is not being driven from the Senate itself, but from outside the Senate, for example, the issue of allocation. It is not because we have not spoken about it in this House; we have done so over and over time again. We need to come up with a strategy of pushing this to be heard very clearly. We need to come up with ways of ensuring that whatever we start---"
}