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    "id": 977276,
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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": "At the same time and on the same matter, the Senate will be calling the same people. Under the law, the publication of the notice was under the Intergovernmental and Public Relations Act. The party that has to be notified is not the Senate, but the county assembly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am urging that you let us not go beyond authorities that are created under the Standing Orders. If there is a definite resolution that the House wants to make, then we need a substantive Motion. If it was a substantive Motion, we would have gone beyond what we discussed yesterday. In fact, I was reading the contribution of the distinguished Sen. Milgo, I am sure, if there was a substantive Motion, the arguments that she made yesterday would have been more exhaustive. The Motion which was before the House was to a Motion of Adjournment to adjourn the House, not to refer the matter to a committee. If the Deputy Speaker felt that it should be referred to the Committee, the matter should have been brought in the House in a different way so that he could exercise his powers under Standing Order No.1. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a lot of material in your office on this practice like Erskine May. There are previous decisions of Parliament in the Commonwealth on how far you can go on a Motion to discuss a definite matter of urgent national importance. In fact, it useful tool of Parliament to ventilate all that happens that you adjourn the House for a period to ventilate and the matter ends there. You cannot carry such a Motion to the next day. As a matter of procedure, even on that basis, if you summon, let us say, the Attorney-General, he could quietly easily say you do not have jurisdiction on the matter. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am just urging you to look at it again, if it is possible so that we have a substantive ruling on Standing Order No.1 and how far you can go as the Speaker or the House in exercise of your discretion on a Motion which is very limited and restrictive . For that matter, I so beg the Speaker."
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