Well, thank you.
I'm glad that Mr. Cooper accepted that friendly change offered by Ms. Blaney.
I'm going to ask him if he would also accept a friendly change that, rather than having an additional meeting.... We'd have to find another spot in the hours of meetings that we have during the week, and we know that Ms. Blaney made reference to how difficult it is to carve out that extra time. Maybe it's just easier to add an hour to our regularly scheduled meetings. We always have time to go a little bit over, so I don't think we'd be pushing off other committees. That would probably be easier, and it comes to the same number of hours.
Mr. Cooper, just to make sure that you understand the good-faith nature of this, we can leave it to the chair to say that we're going to do two hours on electoral redistribution and, following that, one hour on foreign interference. It also could be the inverse. We could do two hours on foreign interference followed by one hour on redistribution, depending on how the panels work out, so that we can get both things done.
It's the same six hours per week that he just agreed to, and it's the same issues we could get distributed. I want to make sure he understands that there is no intention to push this off or to bring other things forward. It's just to leave it to the subcommittee to determine the schedule so that the committee can determine which is the right way to go forward.
I think that's the least complex way forward, and we can get the work done.