It's only when President Reagan was elected that it started to become a problem.
Mr. Chairman, I've expressed my desire to make sure that we examine this thing clearly. I want to have a good understanding of the implications. I want to ensure that we deal appropriately with the question of essential workers, as we go forward.
In terms of how many meetings this means, it's not clear to me at this point. There hasn't been a discussion about what witnesses we're talking about, and so forth.
I expressed my concern last week that five witnesses at a time was a lot for a short period. I like the idea of four at a time, for example. We changed it, so we would have balance at each meeting, so that you'd have those for and against at the same meetings.
I don't know if six additional meetings is the right number. Mr. Lake has some argument as to why it's six. But it seems to me that we should start the study, and then when we come to a point where we figure out that we need to have some witnesses come back, then we need additional days, or whatever, right? I'm not convinced that today is the day we need to decide on this, and I'm not clear as to why it's six meetings.