In the interim I've had the opportunity to expand a little bit on my thoughts on this. I guess I'm going to throw out a bit of a suggestion and then ask the clerk a question.
From my understanding of his timeline, we would want to have at least the beginnings of a report by the first week of May. That was how I understood it. If I understood that correctly, what I might suggest, given the time we would then have.... Obviously our meeting next week, which would be the 21st, I guess, would be the first meeting with witnesses, with the Clerk and the Speaker and other officials potentially. That would leave us with potentially four meetings if we were to follow our regular schedule. It sounds like we may want to cover slightly more than what those four meetings might allow.
What we might want to do is to look at maybe extending the meetings by an hour on the 23rd, 28th and 30th of April, and the 5th of May. We could have three-hour meetings and have two panels of one and a half hours each on those days, which would essentially give us four meetings times two. That's eight panels, which would give us enough time to cover some of those things with a couple of panels, and others where we don't have as many witnesses with just one, and then still allow us to bring back the officials one more time if we needed to ask any questions there. Then we could use May 7 to consider the first draft of our report.