Okay.
If I may--and I'll go to Mr. Kramp and then Mr. Comartin--I'll say that in the past we've struck a steering committee to deal with a lot of the minutiae. Only recommendations come out of the steering committee; the recommendations will come to the full committee all the time. Quite frankly, anyone who can do simple math will realize that the government will win their arguments 10 times out of 10.
We deal with a lot of detail in terms of witnesses, lining up witnesses, moving dates around, and trying to do report writing when we don't have key witnesses who can make it. There are a lot of legal matters that we deal with and we'll do some of the background stuff there. They're all recommendations that go to the committee, and those meetings last anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour. The concern would be that if we didn't have the steering committee, then the 15 minutes to an hour that we spend at the steering committee would have to come out of our committee time, in that we'd be acting as a committee of the whole, if you will, because we'd all be dealing with it. I suspect that if it's a 45-minute discussion in steering committee, it's going to be a lot longer here because there are more people to participate.
So really, it's a facilitating committee. It's to deal with the details of what we have in front of us, to organize our work, because we have a lot of moving parts on this committee. It all comes to the main committee for our recommendation. The steering committee has no power in and of itself; it can only recommend to the broad committee.
Mr. Kramp, you have the floor.