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So here's the drill when you go before Congress in a publicly aired hearing with a

high profile person like Attorney General William Barr before the House

Judiciary Committee. The House Judiciary Committee members who are not on

your side yell at you and scream at you and then when you try to answer

their questions they say you're not answering my questions and when he starts

to try answering the questions they say I claim back my time meaning shut up

I'm speaking and when they reclaim their time they then accuse Barr and did

this time and again of not answering the question that they just asked that

he started to answer and that they prevented him from answering by saying I

reclaim my time this happened with Sheila Jackson Lee it happened with

Hank Johnson it happened with Ted Deutsch it happened with Steve Cohen it

happened with Mary Gay Scanlon it happened over and over and over again so I

not being a total master of House procedure found a paper by the Congressional

Research Service called speaking on the House floor gaining time and

parliamentary phrase theology to figure out how it was that saying I reclaim my

time had the magical power to silence the witness who is being asked a question

okay so here is what the document says the member who has yielded to another

member can take the time back generally this is done by interrupting the

member who had been yielded to by saying reclaiming my time so what this means

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