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    "id": 800637,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/800637/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the idea that you can always accuse other officers or staff because you have a problem with them on a position that I have personally taken and written to the President and signed--. The officers can assist me. I could request them to type for me, give me further ideas or research on an issue. However, the responsibility is mine. It is my letter and that is my position. I believe that these things must be done in a diplomatic way, thus the reason I wrote to the President without copying anyone else. I did not even copy myself because I wanted it to be done in a manner that will bring to an end all these issues. In two weeks, I believe that we will have come with a position. The President and the Attorney General also have a right to disagree with me. If they both disagree with me, we will go to the constitutional arbiter to make a determination on whether this House should continue proceeding by being locked out on two things. One, that one person declares what does not concern counties despite the fact that the Supreme Court said that when there is a disagreement between the two Speakers on what concerns and does not concern counties, they should go through a prepublication mediation process to agree on whether that Bill concerns counties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, secondly, there has been something being hidden around money Bill. Once that process of; “does it concern counties” has been achieved by the two Speakers, no one Speaker can wake up one morning and say that the Bill is a money Bill because that decision is made before that Bill is published as a Bill concerning counties or not concerning counties. The Constitution is very clear. The fact that a Bill has a few sections that relate to money does not make it a money Bill. It can only be a money Bill if the whole Bill from the first to the last clause is about money. If anything else is introduced into the Bill, the Constitution says that it ceases to be a money Bill. We are a serious House here with a Professor of Law sitting as the Deputy Speaker. We are a serious House with three Senior Counsel; the Senator for Nyamira County, the Senator for Busia County and the Senator for Siaya County. We also have serious litigators and lawyers here like Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., Sen. Faki and many other Senators who are lawyers in this House. All the Senators who are lawyers in this House have a renown reputation by virtue of their practice in Law. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
}