Individual members may object to a state's results, in which case the two houses separate and debate the question in their own chamber for up to two hours.

I listened to a college group spend two hours debating a question that didn't deserve thirty minutes.

We debated the question at length the next day, and never quite resolved it.

I debated the question for ten minutes.

But they hadn't debated the question, they'd just left broad gauge laws for laymen to interpret.