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    "id": 411424,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Third Report of the Procedure and House Rules Committee on Amendments to the Standing Orders, laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 4th December, 2013. Hon. Speaker, the Committee laid a Report before the House considering Standing Order No.141. You know that examination, enactment and legislation are regarded as the main business of this House. The process of proposal formulation and drafting of a Bill usually is long winded. According to the Standing Orders that were proposed by the Tenth Parliament and have been revised, those Standing Orders codified the introduction of Bills including pre-publication process, scrutiny of legislative proposals and the standards of public participation in legislative processes. All these processes have created a rather elaborate procedure to make sure that the Bills that are brought before the House are scrutinized and that the public has participated fully and have understood the intent of the legislation. When legislation is finally done, we carry not only the intention of the legislature, but the spirit of the nation in each legislation that we pass here. The changes in our democracy, from parliamentary to presidential, have meant that Members are now in charge of the Bills. There is no longer a Government in Parliament. All the legislative proposals must therefore follow through Members. In fact, in other jurisdictions all citizens will come to Members urging them to bring this or that legislation before the House. So, Members are going to be very busy bringing in proposals every time. If the Standing Orders were to be left the way they are, it would make Members to be very frustrated. Because of these processes that we have, Members may not find it easy to have their Bills debated within the time that they prefer them."
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