Colleagues, before I go to the next speakers, which would be Mr. Duncan and Mr. Calkins, this is what I'm going to do. If I don't hear, by the end of Mr. Calkins remarks, that there is any movement and that we're just going to continue debate, I'm going to suspend the meeting to offer the parties an opportunity to discuss how they want to move forward. We've used up 45 minutes of the meeting.
Understandably, it's legitimate, but we do have to emerge from this meeting with a path forward on committee business. There is ample opportunity for us to have conversations.
As I said, we'll have Mr. Duncan, followed by Mr. Calkins. If it still looks like we're at an impasse, I'm going to suspend and give parties an opportunity to talk and try to break through our impasse, so that we can make a decision on this and get to setting an agenda for committee business. We have legislated timelines on things. We have questions of privilege. We have a variety of other very important people to bring forward.
Obviously, it's within everybody's right to continue this conversation, but there's no point in continuing the conversation if we don't have an idea of how we're going to get to a solution. I'm simply offering this as a preface to where we're headed.
Mr. Duncan, the floor is yours.