I will admit that I'm getting pretty sick and tired of this business on the Senate. The reason the 71 days was mentioned earlier was to basically throw back the line that your House leader and many of your members are using to attack the Senate when they really only have 21 sitting days to deal with the attacking violent crime bill. It has to do with Mr. Storseth's saying that we're trying to delay things in the Senate; we're not.
I will say this, Mr. Chairman, on this motion that's before us right now: I'm not interested in playing games in terms of not getting this through, but I'm also not interested in being forced by a motion to meet Monday nights. I'm willing to give the authority to the chair. We already agreed that we would meet Monday night, February 25, for three hours. We've said to the chair in this proposal that we're willing to do that. I'm willing to leave that authority with the chair, but I'm not going to be browbeaten by a motion before this committee, so I will be opposing this motion. I will say this on the record: we are in agreement to a meeting on Monday, February 25, for three hours.