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    "id": 905028,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "amendments by the National Assembly are mischievous and are without a constitutional basis. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. must be commended because when he was crafting this Bill, he followed the constitutional path on how to suspend a county government. All that is laid out in the Constitution just like the question of impeachment law that has been brought and is under discussion; we have followed the constitutional path and structure for undertaking an impeachment. Madam Temporary Speaker, I, therefore, agree with the Senate Majority Leader on important things like these. I am glad that the Senate has always been together. It is only one time that we were not together on the question of election laws. However, with the wisdom on hindsight, people are beginning to see that there was a problem, especially when there are rushed amendments. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you go to other countries, the role of the Senate is always very important. It is like the quality control of legislation rests on the Senate. They look at Bills more carefully. I join the Senate Majority Leader in saying that those that we have nominated to be in these mediations have done us proud. It has not forced us to send the leadership into these mediation Committees. Our Senators have been up to the task. Even when the leadership of the National Assembly is involved, they have stood by the Senate as a delegation of the Senate. That is something that is worthy to note. I hope it will continue so that when we send Senators to mediation, it does not matter whether it is NASA or Jubilee. I have as much confidence in a Jubilee Member of a mediation team as I would have in a Member from NASA. I commend that this Motion, as considered by the House, would end in the rejection of the proposed amendments which go against the Constitution. If they were to become part of the law of the land, somebody will rush to the court and at the end of the day, they will begin ask who were sitting in the Senate, seeing unconstitutional laws being enacted without scrutiny. I support and second."
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