If I look at our schedule, the first date we have open to begin examining this issue is November 29. We do of course have lots of time to plan, and if I understand our schedule correctly, it looks like we'll get a handful of meetings in on this topic before the end of the calendar year. So I appreciate the point that...I don't know how many charities have requested to come before us. I don't know how many are out there. I'd be interested to know that. But we may be in a very different situation in December in terms of the global financial situation than we are today.
I guess I want to echo other comments that were made that we're going to look a little bit out of touch if unemployment is rising, if the economy is increasingly fragile, and we are locked into studying tax exemptions for charities, as important as that subject is. I thought our proposal of doing four meetings and then reviewing it made sense. It doesn't mean we won't have 12 meetings.
But let me try to phrase that in a different way. I just heard you say, Ms. Glover, that there is flexibility should circumstances change, should some other topic present itself, should financial conditions change. Is there some other way than my amendment, which I thought captured that idea, that we can build in that notion of flexibility? My concern is that we become locked in and are unable to respond if conditions do change.