Definitely we had a long-standing tradition at heritage of not having a subcommittee. But I do know that many members who came onto the committee were very uncomfortable with that. I certainly have an excellent working relationship with Mr. De Maestro, and I expect that working relationship to continue in this committee.
My only concern is that if things change and become complicated, we may need to consider this. I'm willing to go without a subcommittee if we can find a way within our business each session or maybe each month to put aside time to talk about upcoming business. I've seen how other committees get “motion sickness” and end up spending a lot of time fighting about whose motion is going to be where, and a subcommittee could handle that. My one concern is that we not end up diverting a lot of time to doing committee business, but we need to have some process to make sure this thing is steering.