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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "We expect the House to approve and agree with us. Among the four Members, there is Hon. Kawira Mwangaza, who is an Independent Member. This House has 14 Independent Members and nine of them, based on the region they come from, coalesce around the Jubilee Party. Therefore, they are our Members. That is why Hon. Kawira is representing Independent Members who are in Jubilee. The remaining five Independent Members, of course, know that their slot is with the Minority Party. Those specified under (a), (b), (c) and (d), who are automatic Members of the HBC, include the Speaker, who is the chair of that committee, the Leader of the Majority Party, the Leader of the Minority Party, the Majority Whip and the Minority Whip. Those are automatic Members. Their membership to the HBC needs not be approved by the House. It is based on the agenda. The HBC deals with the agenda of the House. The leadership from both sides of the House will be in that committee because they own the majority of the agendas that come to the House. Hon. Speaker, the HBC is a crucial committee that sets the business and agenda of the House as provided under Standing Order No.171. I want to urge my colleagues, and more so the new Members, to make the Standing Orders and the Constitution part and parcel of their lives as we start the 12th Parliament. When they walk into the Chamber, they should make sure that they have copies of the Standing Orders and the Constitution. Those are the documents the Speaker will be referring to. The leadership of the House and any other Member moving a Motion will be referring to those documents. The Standing Order No.171(5) states that the HBC shall prepare and, if necessary, from time to time adjust the Parliamentary Calendar with the approval of the House. Unlike those who were in this House during Mzee Moi’s days when the calendar of the House used to be decided by State House, the calendar of this House is decided by Members themselves, under the guidance of the HBC. If we decide to adjourn this House for three months, in our own wisdom, we can decide it. The Executive does not control the calendar of the House. One of the functions of the HBC is to guide the calendar of the House. Two, the HBC monitors and oversees the implementation of the House business and programmes. Everything the HBC decides will be implemented in the House or its committees. Three, the HBC will implement the Standing Orders respecting the scheduling of programmes of the business of the House and the functioning of the committees of the House. Wednesday morning is for Private Members’ Bills. If you are a Private Member and you want to have your Bill or Motion, Wednesday is the day set for Members on either side to deal with their matter. Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday afternoon and Thursday afternoon are for the Government and committees’ reports. The HBC also decides how reports shall be debated in this House. So, every committee, once it has completed its report and tabled it before the House, it is the HBC that says: “This week, it will be the report from the Departmental Committee on Health or the report from the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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