Thank you, Kelly.
That concludes our first round, but I would ask the witnesses to flesh out an answer to questions put by both sides about the deadline, if not the fixed date, of February 1. The position of the government's response was that it did not support a fixed date, as it was called, because it would restrict the government's flexibility in responding to global and domestic imperatives.
Just what global and domestic imperatives would prevent the government from having a fixed budget date, and to what extent are other countries that have a fixed budget date limited in their ability to respond to domestic or international imperatives? What do you mean?