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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I have two similar sentiments, but I will come back to one. But the first one is on the Marriage Bill. We need to put the record straight for everybody and for the country. One, it is the Constitution that has given powers to this House to do three key functions - to legislate, represent and play oversight role. So, whether you call it a marriage Bill, the Supplementary Appropriation Bill which we are going to deal with today or call it the Mining Bill, the Water Bill and the Budget Report, that is the preserve of this House. But before a Bill comes before this House, various stakeholders are engaged, right from the parent source institution. It goes through the Kenya Law Reform, the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC), the Cabinet and the Attorney-General (AG). It comes to Parliament for the First Reading and then goes back to our Departmental Committees, so that we can look at that Bill again through the stakeholders for 21 days. It comes here for Second Reading, where hon. Members will express on it. Finally, it comes for the Third Reading through the Standing Order. Any hon. Members of this House and even their representatives and their constituents can engage them to bring an amendment to that Bill. An amendment will be discussed and a Question put. I want to confirm - and it is very sad and very dishonest--- I do not want to name the hon. Member but that hon. Member comes from my region. He was not in this Parliament the whole of Thursday and I heard him on the vernacular FM station talking about the amendments. I thought I was alone. But hon. Nuh from Migori called and asked me to hear what that hon. Member was saying on the FM station and whether he was in the House. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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