Sentences with phrase «minute speech limit»

18:26 - He spends more time than one would advise on the history of gay rights, given the four minute speech limit.

Not exact matches

Seven minutes is the limit for a speech.

The Speaker, who has been in his seat since 11.30 this morning without so much as a toilet break, has now limited backbench contributions to three minutes and most of the speeches are covering quite similar ground.

A combined 96 seconds of his 92 - minute speech were spent on issues like campaign finance, outside income rules, term limits and early voting.

In the debate John Bercow, the Speaker, has just said he is reducing the time limit for backbench speeches from five minutes to four minutes.

After Stewart Jackson finished, Nigel Evans, the deputy Speaker, said he was cutting the time limit for backbench speeches to three minutes.

In her enthusiasm Metzger exceeded the three - minute time limit for a nominating speech, playfully dodging her husband, Rosendale Democratic Committee chair John Schwartz, as he tried to cut her off.

Alas, with a six - minute limit on backbench speeches in place during the Second Reading of the Postal Services Bill, he was at that point cut off in his prime by the Deputy Speaker before he was able to make any remarks about the Bill.

Mr. Díaz, saying he was offended by the two - minute restrictions set on speeches, repeatedly interrupted the presiding officer who tried to limit the senator's remarks, shouting, «You don't want to hear me.»

Greer Garson's drawn - out acceptance speech in 1943 for her role in «Mrs Miniver» clocked in at five minutes, 30 seconds, prompting the Academy to introduce a time limit.

The, then, Executive Officer undertook to gag me, as best he could, by limiting my / our speech time to just three minutes.