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    "id": 1202942,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1202942/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Osotsi",
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        "legal_name": "Osotsi Godfrey Otieno",
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    "content": "I disagree with the President’s route of doing it. He is proposing that we look at the Standing Orders and ways of having CSs responding to issues on the Floor of the Parliament. I beg to differ because that contracts Article 97 of the Constitution on National Assembly Composition and Article 98 of the Composition of the Senate. Article 98 provides, for example, in case of Senators, we have elected and Nominated Senators and the Speaker who is an ex-officio Member of the Senate. For that to happen, we would need a constitutional amendment. In my speech, I will allude to constitutional amendment. So, even as we think through it, we must be alive to the fact that the Standing Orders are derived from the Constitution and cannot be superior to the Constitution. So, if you want to tinker with the composition of the House, you have to amend Article 98 for the Senate so that you tinker with the composition and allow the CSs to address the Senate. Otherwise, we can allow them to come but they will sit in the"
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