Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to note, as I said earlier, that if the goal is to have this legislation passed before summer, which is often a reasonable goal for a budget implementation bill, we are up against a difficult timeline no matter what.
For my part, I would like to spend the time that we have in studying the bill, and I think this motion allows for an amount of study comparable to we've seen on other budget implementation acts going back some way, but we need to have a program for how we're going to study it. We need to come to some kind of decision about how we're going to study the bill.
The committee can make that decision. I respect that not everyone is going to agree with the decision of the committee, but we have to be able to have a vote in order to make that decision. Then we can proceed with the time we have, which is limited, no matter what, to June 23 at the very latest. It has to be out of the House before that in order to allow it to have the time to get through the Senate. We're talking about the difference of maybe a week or two from what is suggested in the original motion. It's not that much of a difference in time. We need to decide how we're going to study it so we can do that to the greatest possible effect in the time we have.
That's why I would certainly support moving to a vote, so we can decide one way or the other on the subamendment, the amendment and the main motion, and we can get to studying the bill in the time that we have to do that.
Thank you.