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    "id": 660976,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): It is a Bill of the Parliament of Kenya. Any Bill that has been brought here, whether at the first instance, or being referred to us by the National Assembly, is a Bill of this House. So, when you are doing the mathematics, you must include all those Bills. It is incorrect to say that only six Bills have been passed in this House. From the way the Constitution is crafted, many Bills will ordinarily originate from the “lower” House. It is because of the constitutional arrangement that talks about money Bills and et cetera . So, we should not buy into this idea that unless a Bill has originated in this House, then it is not our Bill. We must have a way forward out of this since we cannot be whining all the time. We, as a House, have had certain challenges in the past even with the National Assembly, but we resolved them. At some point, you will recall there was an attempt to pass certain Bills like the Mining Bill and others without our input. However, our interventions did help us, as a House, a great deal. Now, that is not an issue; Bills are now coming to us. You have seen a long list of Bills before this House. In terms of the way forward, therefore, I suggest that maybe we need to again engage on this issue through the Business Committees of the two Houses. We do not want it to be a Speaker-Speaker thing. We can institutionalise it and the Rules and Business Committee (RBC) of the Senate and the House Business Committee (HBC) of the National Assembly can have a meeting. It is also not true to say that it is the Senate Majority Leader or the National Assembly Majority who makes a decision. It is the Speakers of the two Houses who make the decision. Let us read our Constitution again. However, we can exert our little influences from the Majority side. The best way to address this is the Business 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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