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    "id": 893996,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to move this Bill. This Bill is a collaborative effort between two Senators. It has been sponsored by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and I. It is a Bill that this House needs urgently. For the last few years, we have seen a lot of issues between the two Houses when it comes to determining where a Bill should go. Whereas the Constitution is very clear that both Speakers must determine whether a Bill concerns counties or whether it is a money Bill before it is presented to any of the Houses that does not happen. This meeting has been left to the discretion of the Speaker who receives a Bill and it has rarely happened since the last Parliament. Madam Temporary Speaker, you and I were in the National Assembly in the last Parliament where we felt that we had jurisdiction that was exclusive and that the Senate was not to be involved in them. The same thing is still happening. There are numerous Bills that should be brought to this House but have never been brought here. After the Committee of the Whole, the Third Reading and the approval of the National Assembly, the Bills go straight to the President for assent. In fact, a lot of the legislations that have passed since the beginning of the bicameral system can be challenged in a court of law because the Constitution clearly states that a Bill must go through a certain process. This Bill proposes to set out the criteria or rather the form in which this meeting is supposed to take place. This Bill seeks to set out the manner through which the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Speaker of the Senate will meet so as to discuss where a Bill is supposed to go. In the provisions of this particular Bill, we have pronounced ourselves on the aspirations of the Constitution and have gone step by step or hatua kwa hatua to show how the secretariat of both Houses will receive the legislative proposals, sit down and create a prescribed form. In future, if both Houses---"
}