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    "id": 350107,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to take this opportunity to thank the Members of this Committee. I think I missed an opportunity. I do not remember the day when there was a kamukunji to have gone through this. But if it happened when I was away, I still appreciate. However, these are good Standing Orders that comply with the new Constitution. However, there are areas that I will be proposing amendments having worked in the security sector for the last four years and also foreign affairs and having also interacted with many other jurisdictions both in the developing and developed countries. We need to be careful in the way we combine the functions of both the Senate and the National Assembly. We need to allow some leeway for each of the Houses to actually have some originating jurisdiction on the formation of select or joint committees so that that unique function of either the National Assembly or the Senate is not impaired by that amorphous grouping because it was tried sometime. This is a reflection of the joint committees by the current National Assembly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the areas that I will be proposing amendments are that if you look at the National Assembly Standing Orders, especially on Defence and Foreign Relations Committee, there is a correlation between defence and foreign relations. In the Standing Orders, there is an attempt to lump together defence and homeland security. Again, these are completely two different fields. If you look at America that is the case and the retired general is here. So, we need to separate that aspect so that homeland security which is unique and if there is going to be a unique committee called Homeland Committee that has to deal with a particular issue within the county, then again that is not impaired by an issue that touches on an external threat. In particular, a section of our Committee Members went to America. We also knew that there was going to be these Standing Orders. We interacted with our colleagues in Congress and also in the United Kingdom (UK). We realized that Defence and Foreign Relations Committees are very common. If you go by what is proposed here, defence is"
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