I don't mean to interrupt Mr. Watson as he gets going. Just for the record, so Mr. Watson understands where this came from, because I'm not sure he does, this was modelled after the international trade committee in which his party supported the adoption of a three-minute time limit for all speakers.
If he's willing to go to three minutes, then we're fine. But don't talk to us.... We'll stay here as long as it takes to break this filibuster, to break the government's will in holding up climate change. He's suggesting undemocratic principles and such, and I'll remind him that his committee members at another committee imposed the very same rules. I'm asking him whether he raised such objections at the time, because we need to get on to the issue of climate change and this has to stop.