In the interests of trying to bring this to a close, I'll say that the current wording is relatively strict; it doesn't seem to allow much room for discretion at all. I personally don't like the current wording, but I'm in the chair and I'm not out where you are, so I am hopeful there will be some constructive suggestion.
One thing I could throw out for your consideration is to delete all of the wording after the description of the five-minute rounds. It would read “and that thereafter, five (5) minutes, including the response of the witness, be allocated”, and we would stop there and insert the following words “alternating between parties and among members” So the chair would have an eye to the parties and members as the rounds were distributed. So we'd have the first round followed by all of the second and third rounds, but with alternation.
That's more or less what I've been used to, either in practice or in written rules, in my committee service; but if members want to construct something more precise, you're at liberty to do it. The trick now is to get that proposed at this time.
Mr. McTeague, then Monsieur Roy.