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    "id": 1425311,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "colleagues in this House that when matters such as these come before us, we must show a united front as Senators. When you see a member of the National Assembly disparaging the entire Senate, it includes you. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what right does the National Assembly have to say that in a Joint Sitting we shall be subject to the rules or the Standing Orders of that House? I am sure if these proposals originated from the Senate, we would have special joint sitting rules that accommodate both Houses because that would be the fair thing to do. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as you know, I do not attend those joint sessions because they are chaired by the Hon. Moses Wetangula. If Sen. Cherarkey thinks may be the Speaker of the National Assembly will not be too kind to him, I can assure him that when it comes to myself, I would even receive harsher punishment. I have seen some people online say that may be during the debate on the Finance Bill, I should go there grab the Finance Bill and run away with it, the same way it happened in Taiwan. Those people do not know the Speaker of the National Assembly. I would be expelled from Parliament for five years without even thinking. We want the same rules that we use to debate here in the Senate to be applied during the joint sessions. It essentially means that we, as members of the Senate, have to start learning the rules of the National Assembly, yet we are not members of that House. Those rules are not necessarily too different, but there are small differences here and there. I am sure that you have seen members struggling with our own rules in this House. Imagine subjecting some of them who just shout ‘points of order’ for nothing to the rules of the National Assembly. To protect the slow learners in the House and those who are still acclimatizing with the Standing Orders down the line, you must not subject these members to the rules of the National Assembly. They will fair far worse than they have been doing for the past two years here. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you can see that when you speak about bones, the old people start crying thinking you are talking about them. I oppose this Bill."
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