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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We had seen that coming, considering that the mace was moved today. There was a time we sat here and the mace was not taken. I thought Sen. Orengo was going to address us on why he thinks this is still not one sitting. In his reading of the definition of what is a sitting, when he was reading - Sen. Orengo is my mentor and I have followed him for many years since I was in high school – midway he noticed that there was a contradiction down there. I could see he paused a little bit and was beginning to think through. If you read the definition of what is a sitting, the definition part of page four of theStanding Order No. 2(1)(a) defines a sitting as a period during which the Senate is sitting continuously without adjournment and includes any period duringwhich the Senate is in Committee; but two or more periods of sitting within the normal period of one sitting, or within an equivalent period,shallnot rank as more than one sitting. It is so straight forward. It is in plain English. I do not think it needs interpretation. It says that if it is a continuous sitting divided into two parts - if I can make it in a more simple way - then it still remains to be the one sitting that you gazetted. When we adjourned this morning there was no extension of time when we reached 12.30 p.m. because the sitting was still on. We sat here past 1.00 p.m. because we were still in one sitting. If we were to continue sitting today up to midnight, we would still be on one sitting even if we adjourn again at about 6.00 p.m. and come back at 7.00 p.m. My request to my senior counsel and my friend is, let us move away from the semantics. We should go to the substance of our debate today. As a House, we have already demonstrated that we are a House of maturity and we are ready to work on the substance. Considering the plain reading of that definition, I do not think that this is a horse that we should continue flogging."
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