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    "id": 469917,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/469917/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "May 7, 2013 SENATE DEBATES 44 The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Standing Orders No.1(2), 51(3) and 68(3). Let me read them aloud for the benefit of the House. Standing Order No.1(2) refers to cases not provided for. The most important bit is:- “The decisions made in paragraph (1) shall be based on the Constitution of Kenya, statute law and the usages, forms, precedents, customs, procedures and traditions of the Parliament of Kenya and other jurisdictions to the extent that these are applicable in Kenya.” This falls in sync with the submission of Sen. Murkomen that you give us a reasoned ruling that will form part of our precedent for the future. Standing Order No.51(3) gives the Chair the discretion, with the advice of the Clerk or on your own Motion, you could have put off the vote by not putting the question, under that Standing Order, which on the issue of the amendment we have passed, but on the issue of the main Motion we have not. Standing Order No.68(3) is the one that gives you the threshold. So we are inviting you to combine the three Standing Orders and not give us a ruling ex tempo, but to give us a ruling that will go into the annals of our precedents for the future, for the use of this Chamber and the next Chamber on matters of this nature."
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