I was going to make the same point, that by convention, by operation of this committee, I think we work things out. Even with government bills, if we were seized with an important issue and a study, to think that if suddenly a bill were presented we'd have to drop everything.... Being reasonable people, we'll work through that, but to put it into the rules of the committee, I think, would be wrong. In a worst-case scenario, the government could manipulate that agenda. I'm sure they wouldn't, but it's something we need to be cautious about.
On November 13th, 2007. See this statement in context.