Chair, you cannot unilaterally change the rules. As I've just asked, can the clerk confirm whether or not, in previous subcommittees of this Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, the chair has in fact—and that's regardless of which party was the governing party and therefore occupying the positions of chair of the subcommittee...? Is it the practice that the chair votes?
I'm asking the clerk now. The clerk is the person who knows the rules.