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    "content": "almost all of us will be quitting to go to elections. So, it is very logical and it makes sense and I hope that we will do that expeditiously. Secondly, this House, the Senate, is the Second Senate after the First Senate was dissolved in 1966. Many years have passed before we had another bi-cameral legislature. Kenyans will hardly remember how that Senate sat and what it did. Those of us who were in high school will obviously remember who the Senators were but we were not involved enough to know the culture and tradition of that Senate. This Senate should use our experience to look at the Standing Orders and hand over to the third Senate a better culture which is enriched in these Standing Orders. This follows our experience. Obviously there are good ideas here, but there are always better ideas which could come from the Rules and Procedure Committee. Let me propose to this Committee that they should not sit somewhere and forward to us ex cathedra, a revision of these Standing Orders. We need to be involved; to have an input on the revised Standing Orders. My proposal is, as a Rules and Procedure Committee, you first circulate to the Senators your proposals, what you think should be revised. That should be done from a communication from the Speaker. The Speaker should call a Kamkunji or even a retreat, because this is a serious matter. It is not something we should do in a light way. This retreat should be for a day or two where we go through the Standing Orders with a toothcomb; Standing Order by Standing Order so that what we leave for posterity is something that has the input of the 67 Senators who are the founder Members of the second Senate in the Republic of Kenya. If the Rules and Procedure Committee does that, we will have a good output in terms of the new Standing Orders. I am quite sure that most of the Orders are standard; they may not receive much revision. There are others, like the one I was talking about which require a lot of reflection, maybe a comparative study of other legislatures and how they proceed. If we have time to have a comparative study of other legislatures, we will have rich and long lasting Standing Orders for the Senate in the future. I thank my dear friend, Sen. (Dr.) Machage for his wisdom and foresight in bringing this Motion today to the floor of the House. I support."
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