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    "id": 741783,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am looking at Standing Order No. 146 against Article 113 of the Constitution. We went into a Mediation exercise where there was no quorum and the Bill was negativated. For the same Bill to be reintroduced, our Standing OrderNo. 146 is quite clear on the duration. Are we satisfied as a House that, that duration has been respected or has there been any amendment to these Standing Orders that we are not aware of? My expectation is that the Mediation process would have provided the cure to the problem that we currently find ourselves in. We have not received a report of the Mediation Committee. In the spirit of being statesmen and stateswomen, probably, this Mediation Committee needs to go and sit somewhere and pretend that they have agreed with the version that the National Assembly wants us to pass today. Otherwise, we will be committing an illegality. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the mediation process is a constitutional matter under Article 113, while the issue of reintroduction is in our Standing Orders. We cannot sit here and perpetuate an illegality for the purpose of being expedient. More so, we have been treated to the kind of charade by the National Assembly, which seems to live in a cloud where they think that Kenya is a country where Parliament consists of only one Chamber. It would be improper for us to proceed to consider this Bill without addressing those fundamental questions in Standing Order 146 and Article 113 of our Constitution. It would be unfair for the Mediation Committee not to give us a report. If they want to break this impasse, they should retreat to somewhere and pretend to be doing something. They can work backwards to give us a solution to this. Otherwise, what we are doing today on the Division of Revenue Bill is illegal."
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