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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " That is precisely what I was trying to explain here, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Standing Order No.159 provides for the procedure for receiving a Bill. First of all, remember that this is our Bill, which went to the National Assembly. They have considered and made amendments. The Bill is coming back to us and then upon receipt of that Bill, there is a procedure of introducing it to the House. That procedure is provided for in Standing Order No.159(1) which states that:- “Amendments by the National Assembly to a Bill originating in the Senate shall be circulated to Senators within seven days of receipt of the amendments from the National Assembly and shall be put down for consideration in a Committee of the Whole on such day as the Senate Business Committee shall appoint”. So, it just comes to the House and it goes to Committee of the Whole, then we will consider. If you read paragraph (3), it says:- “Where the Senate has resolved that the amendments by the National Assembly to a Bill be considered and, on the appointed date, the Senate shall dissolve into Committee of the Whole where each amendment shall be called out by the Clerk and may be agreed to or rejected in accordance with Article 112 (2) of the Constitution”. If it is rejected at that stage, it goes to mediation. How do you introduce it to this House for purposes of taking it to the Committee of the Whole? You bring a procedural Motion, which is the one I am moving now, Sir, which is just to introduce it to the House. That is why this procedural Motion does not require the debate on the substance because we do not have a Motion in the House yet. Once it is introduced, we will move to the Committee where we will debate and proceed to vote. At this stage, we just need a vote by acclamation of Aye and Nay, then we introduce it. The consequence of, for example, of voting no will mean that the Bill will go to mediation without our contributions and considerations at the Committee of the Whole as to whether we agree with the National Assembly or not. With that explanation, does that suffice now for me to ask Sen. Fatuma Dullo to second? Sen. Wetangula agrees with me."
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