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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was equally disturbed when I saw the proceedings that were taking place in the National Assembly. We have remained a House of soberness, a House basically that focuses on the law, where it requires that we work together with the National Assembly, we have been very careful to follow the law. If you read Article 110, it provides that Bills concerning county government means a Bill containing provisions affecting the functions and powers of county governments. Matters of whether a Governor can fly a flag or not, matters of whether a county assembly member can be called honourable or not, matters about how the county government institutions and individuals running those institutions are going to be referred to and what privileges they are going to have, is a power that is necessary for that public officer to have in the exercise of the functions that are given in the Fourth Schedule. So, it is important that your counter-part in National Assembly and the leadership of the National Assembly foster a good working relationship. We have Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale’s Bill that went to the National Assembly. I followed the proceedings when the question arose as to whether it was a Bill concerning counties and I was waiting for the Speaker of the National Assembly to rule on the Floor of the House that the determination of whether a Bill concerns counties or not is in the domain of himself and yourself. Since he already allowed that Bill to proceed in this House and the National Assembly, it was fait accompli . That procedure of determination of whether it is a Bill concerning counties or not had already been passed. So, the only ruling that the Speaker of the National Assembly would make is to tell the hon. Member who raised the point of 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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