I was just going to say that I think that there would be a real advantage, because our system of voting is archaic. A lot of people wouldn't realize that our names aren't called and then we vote. We stand, and then our names are called. It can create confusion for the table officers, and that's one of the reasons it takes so long. I think it would make sense to have a button at our desks, and I think we should stand and vote electronically simultaneously, which would save time because the table officers wouldn't be wondering how someone had voted. It would light up; it would be automatic. They'd just read the names from an electronic screen in front of them instead of having to peer down to the end to see who's standing.
But again, compare that with the U.K. Parliament—and I'm sure John knows this. Its voting system is truly bizarre. The British have eight-minute bells, which is hardly enough for people to get there, and they don't vote in the House at all. They have corridors. Where we have the government lobby and the opposition lobby, they have corridors. There are 650 MPs and they don't all fit in the room at once, so everyone who wants to vote nay runs down one corridor, and then everyone who wants to vote yea runs down the other corridor. There are essentially table officers with iPads recording the votes as people come along. If they see the face of an MP in the nay corridor, they know that MP is there to vote nay. MPs wouldn't be in the nay corridor unless they wanted to vote nay. If an MP really wants to abstain, the only option is to make sure to run down both corridors because then the vote won't count because of voting nay and yea. But the members are not seen in the House.
I actually think the tradition we devolved of having a seat for every member in the House, for having a defined moment to stand, is really important, but I think we could improve on it and modernize.
While I've got the floor, I'm just thinking about the bells. The eight-minute bells in the U.K. aren't enough, but if we were to have a system where, when votes were announced the day before, we moved to 10-minute bells, but when votes were unanticipated, we stuck to 30-minute bells, I think that would be completely fair and reasonable and would save a lot of time, because we have 30-minute bells for votes that everyone knows are going to happen.