Here's how we go in circles. I agree. If that would help members, I think it would be useful to let him say, “I cannot answer that question; the committee is the master of its own work”. But I also said--and it is overriding in this regard--that the member put a motion forward. The motion has the proper notice, and for all its bumps and warts, it's in order, we're debating it, and we're going to have to deal with it. And if the member and the committee can't seem to find a way to get to where we would prefer to be, or where some would prefer to be, that's unfortunate, but we're going to have to deal with the problem we have in front of us.
On February 25th, 2009. See this statement in context.