While I appreciate the efficiency, it's very fast. We have six meetings. That's 24 witnesses. In order to consider who might want to testify, to give us less than a day is too short.
I also must confess that I've been wondering, with the volume of material that has been prepared by the analysts, whether one day is sufficient to summarize the COVID evidence. I would suggest we take Monday and Wednesday next week to review the COVID evidence and get briefed. We have a break week after that, and we can pick up the study after that. We also have to have witnesses for the COVID study. It makes sense to get ready to start the week after the break week, with one of the days on COVID and one of the days as the first day of the human resources study.
I wouldn't suggest we take much more time, because the other thing is that we have to give the clerk time to get in contact with the witnesses and arrange them. It's probably more reasonable to say we have witnesses in by, say, early next week, on Monday or Tuesday. That gives the clerk all of next week and the break week to arrange the witnesses to start the study for the week after.
At the same time that we're asking for witnesses for the human resources study, we could also submit some witnesses on COVID. Maybe we should determine how many we'll do. If we're devoting half the time to COVID and maybe firing in four or five witnesses that we each want to hear from on COVID, we can give the clerk time to schedule that as well.
However, it's far too fast to try to get this done for tomorrow.