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    "speaker_name": "Sen. G.G. Kariuki",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this chance. Mine, first of all, is to commend the men and women of honor who sat to decide on this subject that we are debating now. The important thing here is the opportunity that you accorded this House and also the Committee to sit and decide over the matter which affects the running of this House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what I know is that any institution which does not go by the rules or any institution which does not respect its rules, it will never deliver the way it is supposed to deliver the way it is expected to by the Standing Orders. What is more important as far as I am concerned, is that the amendments which have already been undertaken are not the last; that an individual Senator has a right to propose through the Chair to have an amendment for even the amendments that we are going to pass immediately after. There is no limit. I think that is a leeway that we should be proud of because there is no system which must go unabated. There is no system which should last forever without injecting new life into it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we opened this House, I am on record saying that the Standing Orders that we came and adopted or which guided this House for the last nine months or one year were not our Standing Orders because they were done – although constitutionally – by the National Assembly before the Senate came into being. It has come to be that we now can say that we have our own document which we believe in for the time being, and that is the Standing Orders of today. I think it is important for us to understand that the Standing Orders are the ones which have given life to the Committees that we are proposing to add on to the existing Committees. It is important for hon. Senators to accept the view that any successive Senate or Parliament, in my view, will 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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