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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wamatangi",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kimani Wamatangi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have two points. The first is procedural according to our Standing Orders because they are clear that no Senator shall impute improper motive on any other Senator. Is it in order for the Senate Minority Leader to impute improper motives on the Senate Majority Leader, in the first place, in the reasons why he moved the Office of the Speaker to summon this House? The transactional nature of this House is to propose business via debate. If you look at the Order Paper and before you sat down, you communicated that this House is on a Special Sitting today. In this Order Paper, which every Senator here has, Order No. 2 is clearly indicated down there that it is resumption of debate interrupted on that date. Order No. 3 is also resumption of debate interrupted on Thursday, 29th October, 2015. The third one is also resumption of debate. This is a House of debate. How would the Senate Minority Leader stand at the Dispatch Box to claim that he has been disadvantaged by being asked to come to this House to debate, the role for which he and all the Senators were elected? Lastly, a request has been made to you by the Senate Minority Leader that you make a ruling that this House be adjourned. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are here today for a Special Sitting. A Special Sitting of this House clearly expresses why we, as a House, have met. When the business as contained in the communication and gazetted has been transacted, maybe in your good consideration, you could then give a date when you will give a ruling but the business of the day as constituted must be transacted. This is not a litigious House where, maybe because Sen. Wetangula is a lawyer goes to court and says: “Today, your honour, I am not prepared, adjourn the House.”This House does not transact its business like a court. We come to the House to debate. That is why our rules are different."
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