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    "id": 498879,
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    "type": "speech",
    "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, with regard to the Khalwale Bill, as I have said, I have just obtained a status report which I am looking at and I will try and track where that Bill is at the moment. If the Bill was submitted to the President for assent, then the law requires that if he does not do so within seven days, it automatically becomes law. If it was submitted to the “Lower House” for concurrence and it got lost there, then that is a different matter because neither the Constitution nor the Standing Orders say what happens when one House receives a Bill in the form of a message from one House and refuses to prioritize it in its business. So, one House can actually sit on a Bill from another House indefinitely through the House Business Committee. If it went to the President and he did not act within seven days, the law says that it becomes law. In future when we review the Standing Orders, we must make sure that there is also discipline between the Houses so that when one House receives a proposed law from another House, there must be timelines for action and failure for that action must automatically mean concurrence. So, I hope that is something we can solve in the long term. With regard to the Khalwale Bill, I seek the indulgence of Sen. (Dr.) Machage, I will go and track it and come back and inform the House. Finally, I want to say that I did not want to impute any misconduct on the Speaker, but I stand by what I said; that the two gentlemen must discuss and agree somehow. We do not even need explanations. They are failing us! These are senior Kenyans and the law has said that somehow they must agree. So, anybody occupying that office must have the capacity, severally and jointly, to deliver."
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