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    "id": 990979,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/990979/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1565,
        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " On this, I beg to agree. What we have is not the Bill which was transacted in the Senate with whatever defects the procedures leading to it would have treated. The distinction I am making is that what we have now is a mediated version of the Bill. That now requires me to make the second point I wanted to make. Article 93(1) of the Constitution establishes Parliament of Kenya with two Houses. These are two equal Houses which are given distinct and separate mandates as we know under Articles 95 and 96. It is not contemplated, in my respectful consideration of the Constitution, that once either of the Houses discharges its mandates, more so in relation to Bills which have to be transferred between Houses, that either of the Houses exercises oversight over the procedures antecedent to what the other House has gone through in terms of enriching a Bill before its transmission. If we were to go that direction, then we would hamstring the entire institution of Parliament particularly in relation to transactions of Bills. I see a situation where this House will transact a Bill legitimately and then the Senate, upon receiving the same Bill, will sit asking what the quorum was in the National Assembly and how many Members voted. The presumption in law is that when a Bill is duly transmitted from one House to the other, it is not the business of either House to go into the antecedents and the procedures of it. That is a mandate of other Kenyans. We do not have a constitutional mandate between the two Houses to exercise oversight over one another. If you allow me to raise the third point in this particular one..."
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