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"content": "understood by Kenyans who are following this debate why I used very strong language on a Senior Counsel when I was executing my point of order. Since this is a House of records, I want it to be eternally clear that the President was very clear in his mind and he has repeatedly said so, that unless we tweak the Standing Orders we will not be able to extract maximum benefit from the Cabinet Secretaries appearing before the House. This is a problem we had in the second Senate where Sen. Madzayo and I had the privilege to sit. What goes on is actually a joke whereby the chairperson of a committee purports to respond to issues raised either in the Senate or in the National Assembly on behalf of the Executive. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with Sen. Omogeni, Senior Counsel that a committee of this House can quickly transform itself into a Committee of the Whole and the Cabinet Secretary (CS) will come. Please, let it be further clearer to you that when he does so, the Mace of this Senate is lowered. Once you lower it, it means that you have stepped down the authority of the House. It is, therefore, means that if the CS is addressing this House with a lowered mace, the authority of this Senate will be such that you can only push him that much on whatever he has presented to the House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we would like CSs to come to this House when the House is exercising full authority so that we hold them responsible for all their utterances, including their commitments on what they will do. Sen. Omogeni, you can imagine if a Member of the lower House---"
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