Recognizing that the bells are going to ring at 5:15 p.m., which is kind of weird because committee doesn't technically finish until 5:30, but that's a matter for whips, my suggestion is that we go to 4:40 p.m. and that way we'll still have 25 minutes for committee business. Sometimes we've done committee business in five minutes. Very rarely have we done an hour of committee business. What I'm aware of in terms of committee business I can't imagine that it's going to take 45 minutes or an hour. It just doesn't seem fair that we don't have at least one full round of questioning for the witnesses who are here which we normally would do.
On February 26th, 2013. See this statement in context.