I've sat on legislative committees before, I've sat on numerous standing committees of the House, and we've virtually always had the possibility, because of the experience, to be able to present an amendment on the floor while we're doing clause-by-clause. It meant there usually was a vote of the committee to say yes, they would allow it, but it was something that was permitted. It didn't happen all that often, but the reason it really did happen was there was usually virtually unanimous consent of all of the members, including government members. Everybody had come to a realization once we received all of the amendments that there was something that wasn't covered that had been recommended, and everybody was pretty much in agreement about it.
On March 29th, 2007. See this statement in context.