Good afternoon. I want to welcome everybody here today.
My apologies for the late start of this committee. We had many votes to go through in the House today, and that is what delayed the committee's start. I dare say we were probably as impatient as you were as witnesses, with everybody around this table trying to get things done in a timely fashion.
We're going to go right into the testimony from the witnesses, and then following that, we did have committee business. Is it the will of the committee? I want to ask this. We were going to do committee business, but because of the late start in today's agenda and hearing the witnesses, what I would say is this. Could we use the last five minutes for committee business, just so I could hand out some things for you to look at for Thursday?
I have to say we did have cancellation of some people coming to committee today, so we could have the department people back in the second hour on Thursday.
Number one, is it the will of the committee to suspend the committee for the last five minutes just to quickly have some handouts? Can I have agreement to that?