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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. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think Sen. (Dr.) Machage is putting words into my mouth. I said very clearly that the responsibility on determination of which House should be possessed with a Bill is a joint responsibility of the two Speakers and not one of them. So, if we have to reprimand, we have to reprimand the Speakers as a collectivity for failing us, because they should agree. These are very senior public servants and we do not expect petty rivalry at that level. The Constitution says that “the two Speakers shall determine”. In fact, I would have thought that in many of these cases that concurrence would even take place on the phone because there is nowhere in Article 110 where it says that there must be written concurrence. They have failed us, but I have not said that the Speaker of the Senate has 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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