This is a small point of order, but the committee may or may not collectively want to see this amendment, and might be prepared to overrule the chair, but the fact is that the rule still exists. Once the bill was reported back to the House it would still be just as vulnerable. There's no provision for overruling the Chair of the House, the Speaker.
I think what I'm suggesting is that if we were to overrule the chair, if some were to move the motion and the chair ruled it out of the order, then the chair's overruled by the committee and it went to the House, the whole act might be seen just as a political statement and it might be moot because of the view of the Speaker. The rule is really quite clear, and I think the staff have pointed that out.