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    "id": 758407,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. As I second this Procedural Motion, I also want to thank the Mover who is the Leader of the Majority Party for those good explanations; trying to convince the House that we should reduce the publication period of these Bills. The Bill is not yet before the House. I will not discuss its details. The Motion is just seeking leave of the House. Ordinarily, every Bill has 14 days for publication. But, in accordance with Standing Order No. 120, this House by its resolution can really shorten the publication period to any number of days. These Bills are four. On the first two, we are seeking leave of the House that their publication period be reduced from 14 days to 10 days. The last two are very critical that we seek reducing the publication period from 14 days to one day for obvious reasons. It is no longer a secret that the calendar of this House is approved by the House itself. As the Mover has said, we will be proceeding for an 11-day recess from this afternoon. Again, we have a presidential election coming in 28 days from today. The fourth Thursday from today is going to be the date for the presidential election as set by the IEBC. Without discussing the Bill, it is in public domain that the Supreme Court raises some issues that need to be corrected before we go to the new presidential election. This Bill tries to align some clauses with that ruling of the Supreme Court. Therefore, if we are proceeding for recess this afternoon and coming back on 10th October 2017, then there will be a presidential election in two weeks or so. It is really good that we reduce the publication period of this Bill so that the ad hoc Committee whose Notice of Motion was actually given this morning--- I heard my good friend, Hon. Olago, talking of bypassing a departmental committee. Maybe, he just got in a little bit late because when we reached to Order No. 6, the Leader of the Majority Party gave Notice of Motion to establish an ad hoc Committee purposely to look into these proposed Bills and it will be coming this afternoon. So, we are asking leave of the House that this Bill’s publication period be reduced so that, as we proceed for recess, that ad hoc Committee, if approved by this House, can look into it and invite the public to participate and when we come back, we discuss the Bill. Therefore, it is simple. It is just asking for the reduction of publication time. I do not want to talk about the nitty-gritties in the Bills. It will come at the right time. I also ask my colleagues to please approve it and in the afternoon, we discuss the ad hoc Committee. An ad hoc Committee formed in accordance with Standing Order No. 218 will only do that which it is mandated to do. It is only for that particular purpose and them its term and mandate ends and then we can now come back and form substantive departmental committees, including the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee that is supposed to be looking into this. This Motion is so straight forward. I request my colleagues that we move forward. This will move towards reducing the temperatures in the country as we have been saying. I beg to second."
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