Subcommittee on Disclosure Forms under the Conflict of Interest Code committee  Rather than hold up your written documentation, we could ensure that we at least got a decision of the subcommittee so we could move forward to the next stage.

Subcommittee on Disclosure Forms under the Conflict of Interest Code committee  Perhaps I could intervene. If the subcommittee could have the benefit of your main proposals and concerns by that meeting, they could at least make preliminary views of them. If there was specific follow-up language that needed to be done, we could work together with you on that during the one-week period.

Subcommittee on Disclosure Forms under the Conflict of Interest Code committee  The difficulty is that the subcommittee has to finish its preliminary determinations before the draft report can be prepared. We were thinking of having the draft report prepared over that one-week period, so that when the House returned after that one-week recess, they would be able to finalize what they want to put before procedure and House affairs.

Subcommittee on Disclosure Forms under the Conflict of Interest Code committee  I can, or not. The original plan had been to try to consider a draft report at the meeting next Thursday. A number of issues have arisen today, and the subcommittee will want to look at the proposals and comments from Mr. Walsh's office. Perhaps if we had another meeting next week to try to consider all the outstanding issues, we could then have a draft report for the week after the break, which would mean that with any luck, the report could go to procedure and House affairs by the first week of June.