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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Leader of Majority",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank colleagues who have taken time to speak to this extremely important Bill. I take their comments in good order. I only take exception to the comments by Sen. Danson Manzo. He is among the senior most legislators in the House, having been in the corridors of Parliament for the past 12 years. I listened to him espouse on the benefits of the Bill and what needs to be done or changed. He then concluded by a colloquial remark that has become commonplace in this House by saying this is a bad law. Now, what I do not understand is this: When a Bill is at Second Reading, Dan Maanzo, and the elements to it that you agree with and elements that you think need to be made better, how does it become bad law? I thought as a senior legislator, you need to guide the House. You are a senior leader in the House because you have been around for long. As such, to your colleagues who look up to you, draft the necessary amendments once we get into the next stage of the Bill. There is a reason Bills go through the First and Second Readings and, then the Committee of the Whole. It is so that you align it to the things. I have said this many times. Unfortunately, I am saying it in the evening when the House is almost empty. If a Bill is so flawed that it is completely against the rules of a country and Constitution, you can declare it a bad law at a Second Reading. We were protesting the other day what the National Assembly did in rejecting a Senate Bill at Second Reading. I spoke at length about the abuse of legislative procedure. Sen. Maanzo, I believe you can do better by guiding many of your colleagues to appreciate how to align a law. For example, if you are clear in your The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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