With the willingness of the committee, I'd like to bring forward a discussion on a couple of other routine motions, and that's on the length of time for questioning and the order of questions. In different committees, we give different time allocations for rounds of questioning.
If I may, I'd like to suggest that the witnesses of any organization that is coming to make interventions or presentations before this committee be given ten minutes to make their opening statement. During the questioning of witnesses--this is the most important part--there should be allocated seven minutes for the first round of questioning and five minutes allocated to each questioner in the second round and beyond.
I'm open to discussion on this. I think we've kind of gone around the horn. The reason I'm saying seven and five is because we have an additional member on the government side now. I'm just trying to open it up for discussion to see what the committee thinks would be the best allocation of time for this committee during the questioning of witnesses. I'm suggesting seven and five.