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    "id": 1626090,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a Statement by the Majority Leader regarding the business of the week that commences on 22nd July, 2025 pursuant to Standing Order No.57(1). Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is the status of legislative business for that week. We have 59 Bills, of which 40 are at the Second Reading and 19 are at the Committee of the Whole stage pending consideration. There are 32 Motions, three of which are pursuant to Standing Order No.238, all of which have been discussed and are now pending conclusion. Further, we have 28 petitions that are pending conclusion by respective committees and like I observed last week, 19 of them are due for reporting already. I can see a number of chairpersons in the House, including Sen. Faki, Sen. Mumma and perhaps some are sitted behind me that I cannot see them. If you are a chairperson of a committee and you have a petition that is due for reporting, we are being very unfair to the citizens that petition this House because they do so believing that we can deliver justice expeditiously. Therefore, I hope that we can do that because that is part of our constitutional mandate. We had an interesting one last week, the one by Mr. Omusundi, which we are already counting the 30 days as we continue to see that violation. It was quite poetic injustice, not justice this time. I spoke about it and on Friday, last week, I went to a function as a chief guest and the Member of the National Assembly had actually branded a photo of themselves on that particular bus. I almost asked them to remove it, but then I figured, the 30 days are not yet over. I hope the secretariat is following up on the resolution of that matter. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was just making that point to remind our chairpersons on the importance citizens attach to this House, especially with regards to petitions. There is a reason why this House receives almost three times the number of petitions more than our counterpart House. I want to request our chairpersons to, please, not let that very stellar performance and good record of this House disappear. Hon. Senators will also note that, as indicated in Order No.10 and 11 in today's Order Paper, two Bills are scheduled for division at the Second Reading Stage. Further, at Order No.12, the President's Reservations to the Conflict of Interest Bill (National Assembly Bills No.12 of 2023), are equally scheduled for division at the Committee of the Whole Stage. I therefore request our party whips to mobilise the requisite delegations for the divisions to be undertaken to ensure progress is made on this Bill. In particular is the two Bills that we concluded in the previous days; that is, the County Allocation of Revenue Bill 2025(Senate Bills No.9 of 2025) and the Equalisation Fund Appropriation Bill 2025(Senate Bills No.7 of 2025), which we concluded yesterday after a very interesting debate from Members who gave their perspectives on who 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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