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    "speaker_name": "Kuresoi North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Cheboi",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Kipkemboi Cheboi",
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    "content": "will face the normal attrition of the House. So, as I have said, this is the Will. I expect Members to be very keen because it tells us what to expect in the next Parliament. Hon. Members, I want you to be very keen. I will be brief. You will see that many things will come in the course of this. For example, some Bills are being saved. When a Bill starts and you are sponsoring it, if the House is adjourned sine die, and it will, you can take over from where you had left it if you come back to Parliament. Members know that to serve in this National Assembly, you have to be in a Committee. There is a part in the Report that makes you know that new committees will be created. If you pass this Report, you will want to know them well before you go home, so that if you come back, you will be sure which one you want to serve in and you have the qualification to do so. Let me leave that for now. There are many ways of amending the Standing Orders and this is one of them. Standing Order No.263(1) stipulates that: ‘A Member may, with the support of, at least, fifty other Members, request the Procedure and House Rules Committee to consider an amendment to the Standing Orders.’ Additionally, Standing Order No.264 provides that, at least, once in every term of Parliament, the Procedure and House Rules Committee shall review the Standing Orders. This is what we are doing. That Committee is chaired by our Speaker. Many times, some Hon. Members think that I chair it. I do not. I only chair it when it is a sub-committee of the main Committee, which is chaired by the Speaker himself. Once that is done, you can amend the Standing Orders. The beauty of this is that this is the only opportunity that we have in normal circumstances. Sometimes, extraordinary circumstances demand that the Speaker presides over committees of the whole House. Those are special circumstances, of which, this is not. When this matter will be dispensed with, the Chairperson of the Committee of the whole House will be the Speaker himself because it is very important. The Speaker will be preparing this House for the next one. Having served in the 12th Parliament, he knows the specific areas that need to be polished and he will sit here to do so with the help of other Members."
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