I want to thank you, Mr. Chair, for stepping on the question I was about to ask.
To expand on what the chair was saying, it appears to me that had the House been sitting at the time, we could have dealt with this fairly expeditiously since the House granted unanimous consent to waive its privilege. Of course, the House doesn't sit 12 months a year, and that's the problem we have. Access to information requests come in throughout the year and the House only sits a portion, nine months or so, of the year.
I have a couple of questions.
First, from a procedural standpoint, for the House to waive its privilege, does it require unanimous consent?