Five miutes each???

[Raven]

Each Congressperson on the committee will have 5 minutes to question Mueller? This format is a recipe for disaster. Why do this except to allow grandstanding and sound bites? Supposedly they want to educate the American people on a complex subject. Who are they kidding. No wonder Mueller is reluctant to testify. I'm disgusted and I think tomorrow's hearings are doomed to failure

[Takket]

1. hillary testified for 11 hours.............

how about congresspersons ask questions as long as they damn well feel like it?

[brooklynite]

2. How would you organize the hearing?

With the number of Committee Members, the hearing is already approaching 4 hours.

[Raven]

5. I would designate 2 or 3 people (Congresspeople or staff) to ask the questions. I would

gather input from all committee members but I would have a very focused and carefully organized approach to Mueller.

[elleng]

9. Yes

[uponit7771]

11. +1

[Blue_true]

13. That makes sense if staff asks the questions. nt

[a kennedy]

14. Plus +++++++++++++++++++++

[marble falls]

3. This is a pretty regular thing, the rules allow members to defer to other ...

members and given them their time. this is pretty standard. I can't remember the last time there was much time over that.

[Hoyt]

4. Doomed to failure for a lot of reasons, but if our Committee members aren't coordinated, with a

rational list of questions to ask in order with no more ad-libbing than necessary, we are doubly doomed.

But, there is always a chance something big happens.

[uponit7771]

12. +1

[Mike Nelson]

6. They can make long speeches...

… and witnesses can run out the clock. Really dumb way to hold a hearing...

[Kurt V.]

7. Decades of precedent. Change this crap!!

[elleng]

8. RIGHT, a recipe for disaster.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. This is more or less always the way these things are done.

And yeah, the Congress people always make their own self-serving speeches and rarely get to anything of substance. Is AOC on the committee? She doesn't waste time and will ask really good questions.

[sheshe2]

15. Well I doubt that Mueller will grab the mic...

Well I doubt that Mueller will grab the mic and give a soliloquy like Kavanaugh did to run out a Congresspersons time. Kav had an agenda and a Barr to meet.

[SCVDem]

16. The word of the day is fillibuster

I have seen every Kgop'r do it.