Christmas break starts on December 15. I would prefer that those dates be set two days from now at our Thursday meeting so that we'll have a good opportunity to provide a work plan. It may be that the dates you're proposing work fine, but then again we may need a little more time. In the spirit of ending on December 12 or 14, the last week before the committee does its work and forwards it to the House, we could do our clause-by-clause study on December 12 or December 14. I think that's what I would prefer at this point, but I would prefer first that we deal with this on Thursday. However, if you want your motion changed today and dealt with today, and if you want to put in specific dates, I don't think it's necessary for us to do it on Thursday; you could just end the motion with the idea that we begin the bill no later than Thursday, November 2, which I think was the original proposal from Mr. Godfrey.
Would you not be comfortable with that?