"How about 'the penalty for illegally keeping a former slave must include arrest, and the government must ensure the freedom of any former slaves'? I think that would prevent a situation where slaveowners illegally hold slaves in perpetuity."

"The second is meaningful, the first isn't."

"I doubt we're going to have a proposal detailed enough for the floor to vote on today. Perhaps we should adjourn for the day, having agreed to compose a proposal for full emancipation and abolition without compensation to owners, and convene again tomorrow to start on the details. Some of us have other committees meeting soon, and tomorrow we'll be able to start better rested and with fewer interruptions."

"...Also have other committee," Liushna admits. 

Nod.

"It seems that would be for the best, then. The vote on Delegate Permira's proposal is incomplete, currently 3/4. We shall resume tomorrow."

Jaume copies the highlights as an interim report. If he were the President he'd want to know which committees were dysfunctional enough to have multiple storm-outs.