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    "content": "they want. They require 32 votes to reject this memorandum. They will not get that number. Secondly, the Jubilee Coalition, which supports this memorandum, has no apologies to make neither does the Opposition. We require 24 votes to approve this Bill. We have that number. We may not have that number right now in this sitting, but we can raise it to approve this memorandum. My point of order is in connection with what we have just witnessed from the Chair of the Committee of the Whole, the Senator for Migori County, who had a good job, but appears to have been intimidated by two Senators whose names I do not want to mention, who have been yelling and making all kinds of demands. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Standing Order No.172 states what a Chairperson of the Committee of the Whole who has just finished chairing a committee of the Whole needs to do. It does not anticipate of what the Senator for Migori County has just done. He is trying to disown a decision he has made. Standing Orders No.172 says:- “A Committee of the Whole may not adjourn its own sitting or the consideration of any matter to a future sitting, but the Chairperson may, by Motion, be directed notwithstanding that all matters referred to the Committee have not yet been considered, to report progress to the Senate and ask leave to sit again.” In a nutshell, the obligation placed by the Standing Orders on Sen. (Dr.) Machage is the obligation to report progress. He is not supposed to tell us that he is withdrawing. I do not even understand what he is withdrawing in the first place. He cannot withdraw anything; he has to report progress. Could he do so?"
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