Thank you, Madam Chair.
I really like what I just heard, to be completely honest. If you look at the total number of minutes that are in here for questions, there are 49 minutes. With a 10-minute introductory statement, that is just under an hour, at 59 minutes.
I would definitely support shortening the opening statements. My personal opinion is that if you can't get your point across in six minutes, I don't know how much more you're going to be able to get across in an additional four minutes. To be honest, I'm skeptical about moving the time slots around. I'm not 100% certain that this is the best way to go about doing it. I really do think that if we can limit and even reduce the amount of time for the opening statements to, let's say, six minutes, it would be a much better way to go about it.
I'm interested in hearing what others have to say, but as it stands right now, I really like the idea of shortening the opening statements by the witnesses.