Thanks, Chair.
Certainly, we just need to ensure that we try to coordinate as many pieces together.... Today I would have been happy to have three hours and two witness blocks.
Just as a note to try to work together, and for the benefit of the analysts, I'd be happy to explore the deadlines for dissenting reports. If there were any feedback needed, we could have all of that stuff figured out beforehand to make sure that we can, in fact, work within the tight timelines. I think that having a short report to ensure that we have what is required by the House order—trusting the analysts to make sure they encompass what that looks like, and then just trying to coordinate those different things happening all at once—would certainly be possible, but I think that extended time is entirely reasonable.
It would sure be nice to have a little more notice than the notice going out at 7:51 the night before, in terms of demands on the clerk, analysts and staff. I think that if we can forecast some of those things a bit ahead of time—we have a great panel today, which I'm looking forward to getting to shortly—just to ensure that we get the high-calibre witnesses that I know both of these studies demand, it would be important to have a little more lead time and planning for that.