It is true that we have to hear from too many witnesses in a very short time. If there are several interesting witnesses who are interested in a given subject, it is up to the committee to allow them a second hour. If people tell me that they want to appear before the committee, I would not tell them that there are too many witnesses. We must decide together who will testify. I do not want to overstate the case and say that we will hear from everyone all the time. I have never presented a list of witnesses in order to filibuster and say that there are many witnesses and that we will therefore waste time. It is up to us to organize another meeting in order to give ourselves the time to hear from them.
I support your suggestion, Mr. Chairman, whereby, at a particular moment, if we have too many witnesses, we simply give them less than 10 minutes to make their statements. In any case, people understand that.