Do they run off if you ask questions more than a few syllables in length? Like, after you’d thanked him for telling you how big space is, if you’d then said:

“Senator, why has the chair of your committee (Gillibrand) sponsored an amendment to legislation that requires the Department of Defense and its contractors supply Congress with a <quote> comprehensive list of all non-earth origin or exotic unidentified anomalous phenomena material <end quote> ?”

...Would he already be into the elevator by the time you’d finished asking the question?

See page 216:

congress.gov/118/bills/…