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    "content": "Leader or a Whip of a party by the political party, but having a clearer system of communicating with the Chair so that in the case of a Senate Majority Leader, then it is the Whip of the political party who communicates with the Chair about the decision of the party. Then in the case of the removal of the Whip, it is the Senate Majority Leader who should communicate to the Chair the decision of the party to remove the Whip. So the decision of removing the Whip or the Senate Majority Leader remains with the party, but the communication is done by somebody else so that the Senate Majority Leader may know the person communicating his own removal or the Whip to know the one communicating his or her removal. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Standing Order No.20 which is on page 33 of our Standing Orders, we are making similar amendments or else called mutatis mutandis regarding the Senate Minority Leader and the Minority Whip. So, it is the same amendment, but touching on the Minority Leader and the Minority Whip. Also providing for performance of their duties, the Deputy Minority Leader should act when the Minority Leader is not there and also the Minority Whip to act when both the Minority Leader and the Deputy Minority leaders are not there. On page 7 of the Report, we are proposing to amend Standing Order No.25 which is on page 36 of the Standing Orders. This one regards visiting heads of States and visiting dignitaries. The proposal here is that the Speaker may after consultation with the Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Minority Leader allow a visiting Head of State or a visiting dignitary to address the Senate. The purpose of this amendment is to allow for more consultation between the Speaker and the leadership of the House so that they can agree whether a visiting dignitary can come and address the Senate or not. This is because if one side agrees and the other one does not, then we could face embarrassment to a visiting Head of State is only one part of the House is coming to listen to such a visiting dignitary. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Standing Order No.29 on page 38 of the Standing Orders which deals with calling of special sittings of the Senate---"
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