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    "id": 707043,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have listened to your directions and the first direction is that the Delegated Legislation Committee will have 21 days under Standing Order No. 215 to report to the Senate whether they agree or disagree with the resolution of the National Assembly. I do not expect the Delegated Legislation Committee of the Senate to disagree with themselves about their recommendations. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is my proposal; you have given them 21 days which goes beyond the period within which we will be sitting as a Senate. I thought you would use your Standing Order No. 1 and discretion available to you to ask the Committee led by Sen. Sang to have a report here on Tuesday next week which will cause the Joint Committee to start sitting under Standing Order No. 216. Otherwise, we risk that this is going to become an academic exercise in February. What will be the point of having a Joint Committee sitting in February, 2017? What is worse, Mr. Speaker, Sir, there was a public display of mockery of this Senate. It is not possible that this House of review, of eminent legal scholars can make the sort of mistakes they purported we were making. Therefore, just like Sen. Billow has said, I would suggest that there is failure somewhere. That was an excuse to deny the Senate those funds and I am aware that there were consultations that were done before those rules were tabled in the National Assembly. The wisdom of the Supreme Court - for you to appoint three persons who would seek to sit with the National Assembly cannot be overstated. We have lamented so much about our problems. Sometimes I think as we sit here every day, we are signing our death warrants and wishing this Senate away just like the first Senate of this Republic. It would be a bad history if that were to happen. For once, I know you have pleaded and said that you are a gentleman. If somebody slaps you, you do not slap them back. However, these are 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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