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    "id": 1442935,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "There are ways and means of reducing the expenditure in this House in a manner that will reduce the burden on taxpayers. I honestly do not need that money. Even if I ran up and down the Express Way for one year, I would never exhaust Kshs377,000. We must do this so that we demonstrate to the people that we are serious about what we are talking about. Thirdly, I will speak about something in the Motion. The Senate Majority Leader proposes that the National Assembly should reconvene so that they deal with the question of the Presidential Memoranda on the Finance Bill. Just as a constitutional lawyer, we, in the Opposition or the Minority side, have a different take on how this Finance Bill should be dealt with. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, look at Article 115 on what should happen to a Bill when it is sent back to Parliament. Article 115(3) says- “If Parliament amends the Bill fully accommodating the President’s reservations, the appropriate Speaker shall re-submit it to the President for assent.” What that means is that the President has to be sent something back after that process of the consideration of his Memorandum. I do not think the Constitution envisaged a situation where you are sending a blank document from Parliament to the President for assent. This is because the Presidential Memorandum is proposing a deletion of all the clauses contained in the Finance Bill. So, you will have an empty piece of paper. It will have nothing on it and then you are sending it back to the President for assent. What is he assenting to? The proposal that 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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