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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to give you a practical example. We have just received a draft Bill from the Ministry of Natural Resources. My first notion was that because a policy is Government policy, I would simply table it but I understand that the procedure is now different for the Bills emanating from my committee whereas for other committees, you can see that the signatures are those of the chairpersons of those committees. So, because I do not want to make it look like a personal war, I want a procedure that is for me and for all other committee chairpersons. Having dealt with that bit, a more procedural issue that is of concern to me is that all the Bills that we will be publishing will be published by the National Assembly. They come in a draft form. So, whereas I am happy for the Leader of Majority Party to move the Wildlife Bill, and for it to be sent to my committee, what procedure would we have when I am willing and ready to move Bills that may come to my committee from Ministries? What procedures do we have to deal with pre-Bill proposals that may come from the Ministries, so that when we deal with the amendments to the Standing Orders, we do a comprehensive job? Hon. Kaluma said that the Procedure and House Rules Committee should be dealing with this matter but what we are dealing with was handled by the Procedure and House Rules Committee in the previous Parliament. We were not able to anticipate some of the challenges that we are seeing now. In the beginning our thought was that the chairpersons of the committees, the Ministers and whoever else who would request a legislative proposal would direct it there. Luckily for Kenya, all the political parties seem to have the same policies. They only change according to what drama they want to bring to the House. Due to that want, we need to come up with a procedure that is standard for everyone, and which is not affected by the whims of anyone. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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