I'm just going to suggest that once these initial briefings are done and the ambassador has spoken, there should be a good subcommittee meeting to then assess and review witnesses and all that. I just don't think we can do it before then.
The other issue is that we have a preference on this side—it's a preference, not a demand—to meet once a week for three hours as opposed to twice a week for two hours each, with the option of having occasional meetings added to that. We would like our default to be one meeting, three hours a week, because of committee responsibilities. Almost all of our members have a second committee that they are on, so we are trying to balance that.
We feel we need to keep it within the times allotted by the House for special committees. We think that, on occasion, we could do an extra evening meeting, but our preference is to meet on Monday and our preference is to have a three-hour meeting.