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    "content": "It is not a new Committee as such because majority of them, except three; two from the Majority side and one from the Minority side, the rest are already Members who are serving in the Chairperson’s Panel. Under the current Constitution, Article 124, each House of Parliament is empowered to create committees and also to make Standing Orders for the orderly conduct of business. Further to that, the Standing Orders of the Senate provide that the Standing Orders which are to help us run this House may be amended first by the initiative of the RBC, and secondly by the initiative of a Senator. It is in that context that the Senator for Migori County, Sen. (Dr.) Machage, suggested the amendments supported by 16 other Senators. These amendments are to split the RBC into the Senate Business Committee and the Procedure and Rules Committee which as I have said is supposed to deal with the procedural issues and how this House is run. Allow me to emphasise that this is not a new Committee, but it has been set up simply to separate the House Business Committee which is the agenda setting Committee of the House from the issue of the day to day procedural and administrative functioning of this House. The majority of the Members in the proposed RBC are Members of the Chairperson’s Panel. There are three additions, two Senators from the Majority side and one Senator from the Minority side. This is a routine Motion and an earlier Motion for the split was passed by this House. I, therefore, do not want to say much more than I have said already. I beg to move and I request the Senator for Kakamega, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale to second."
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