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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seneta",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Clerk. I stand to seek a clarification from my colleague who raised this issue. I served in the National Assembly in the Eleventh Parliament. This is a House of rules and order. We have the Standing Orders that guide every business that is transacted here. For example, Standing Order Nos.(4) and (5) on the Election of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker stipulates the procedures to be followed. Therefore, reading these Standing Orders - and I believe the newly elected Senators who have just joined us, have also read them - there is no indication that the candidates vying for these positions needed to present clearance from those other institutions. I also want to comment on the issue of the independent constitutional institutions in our country. If a candidate is accused of misconduct or misappropriation of funds from an institution he was serving, then the court should issue on order on how to handle him. Therefore, we should stick with our Standing Orders as they are now. If there is need for us to change the Standing Orders - which I believe we have the power to do so – then before the presentation of the nomination papers, a candidate should be asked to clear himself or herself with those other constitutional institutions. I beg to stop here."
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