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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, Madam Temporary Speaker. Although I stand to support this Bill, I would have hoped that it would have been discussed after all hon. Members had been given sufficient time to go through it. Although it is the second time it is coming here, but that is only good enough for those who were in the Eleventh Parliament. Although it has been with hon. Members, the most important thing I am trying to point out is that there is a Supplementary Order Paper, and this Bill is before the House courtesy of that Supplementary Order Paper. It is coming on a Thursday, and even if it was there yesterday, it was not there today. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not want to carry out this conversation with the Senate Majority Leader, but when we have a Bill of this magnitude, it should either be on the Order Paper for the day or it is not. However, when it is being brought through a Supplementary Order Paper, then that is a little bit unkind to prosperity. I am saying this because, normally, in the interpretation of statutes, people want to read what the Senate thought, because we are the lawmakers. Madam Temporary Speaker, I know that technical people drafted this law and there must be a lot of material behind the generation of this statute or Bill. However, at the end of the day, the Bill speaks for itself. What we are presumed to have required of the law is that, first and foremost, it is expressed in terms of the words of this Bill. Secondly, legislative history is becoming a very important tool for interpretation of statutes. At the end of the day, somebody will want to hear what the Senator for Kericho County said. I am grateful that I was listening to him while I was somewhere, and I heard him saying very inspirational things. It was important and appropriate for every Member of the Senate to have a reasonable opportunity, which would require reasonable notice so that they are aware that this Bill was coming today. That way, they would have discussed it with the kind of scrutiny that this kind of Bill requires. That is important in terms of the fact that there was integration and conflation of several statutes collapsing existing agencies into one. We need to speak to all that in detail. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have listened to the Minority Whip, and he has raised quite a number of issues. It would have been better off if that opportunity was The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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