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    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Mr. Speaker, Sir, the term “middlemen” was not used in the commercial sense. It was used in the sense that there is a legislature, parliament, on one side and there is the executive on the other side as an arm of Government. I made it very clear to the Executive that it is not the role of the Executive to make laws. It is the role of Parliament. What the Executive can do is to propose laws which they think can help them realise their manifesto or view of things because they have been elected in office but they just propose. So, the word “middlemen” was used, not in the commercial sense of brokerage, but in the sense that, the only legitimate organs are the Executive, which has a right to propose laws. But in terms of the exclusive mandate of making laws, it is vested with Parliament, not some other functionary determining that: “This Bill should go here and the other should go there.” The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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