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    "id": 350075,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Procedure and House Rules Committee on Draft Standing Orders of the National Assembly, the Senate and the Joint Rules laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday December 19, 2012. It gives me great pleasure to move this particular Motion to adopt the Committee’s Report as a member of the Speaker’s Panel and by virtue of that, as a Member of the Procedure and House Rules Committee. The Procedure and House Rules Committee is established pursuant to provisions of Section 56 of the former Constitution as saved in Section III to the Sixth Schedule and the National Assembly Standing Order No.191 in force since 2008. Under the provisions of Standing Order No.191(2), (3) and (4), the Committee has three specific mandates, but I will just mention two. The first one is to consider and report on all matters relating to the Standing Orders and the second one is to propose amendments to the Standing Orders. That is exactly why this Motion is before the House today. In February 2011, pursuant to the provisions of the stated Standing Order, the Procedure and House Rules Committee embarked on the drafting of the Standing Orders for both the National Assembly and the Senate. This exercise has been extensive, consultative and included legislative experts, civil society groups, scholars, parliamentary officials, the Kenya Women Parliamentary Association Members, Parliamentary Initiatives Network, FIDA-Kenya, ICJ-Kenya and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK), among other professional bodies. In furtherance of this mandate, the Committee, I must appreciate, was supported by the taskforce of the National Assembly comprising of clerks, legal counsel and especially the budget officers. The members of the Committee and the taskforce had the opportunity to visit various countries with comparable systems of Government and"
}