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    "id": 1025549,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Chairs of Committees, you better check with the Director of Committees to know which Bills are before you. There are some which the only reason they cannot be processed here is because the Committees have not brought their reports after engaging various stakeholders. So, Chairpersons must prioritise that. We would want to clear as many Private Members’ Bills as possible. I am on record saying recently that most of the Bills that come from the Senate, about 99.7 per cent of them, are Private Members’ Bills. The Senate has only 67 Members; the National Assembly has 349 Members. So, when we consider one Private Member’s Bill from the Senate, we should be able to process another five or six Private Members’ Bills of the National Assembly. That is an element of equity. As rightly observed by Hon. Millie Odhiambo, indeed we have processed quite a number of Private Members’ Bills in the recent past emanating from the Senate, not least, of course, the one that is likely to be considered in the next Order. As Hon. Kimunya, the Leader of the Majority Party, has indicated the HBC has deliberately today taken the decision to prioritise most of those reports, I think 18 or so that have been tabled, so that the individual sponsors can also begin to prepare. I can see an intervention. Hon. Pukose, have the Floor."
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