Thank you, Chair.
With regard to the current amendment of moving the dates along, I do recall from my notes in preparing to come to committee that, on February 3, this committee adopted six meetings that were supposed to conclude on April 18, including clause-by-clause.
The motion that was put forth—and now we're on an amendment of timetables—was really, as mentioned, to put us on track to reset. There's always the opportunity, if we would like, to meet next week with witnesses virtually. I would like to make sure everyone has their time.
This wasn't meant to be a filibuster, as my Conservative colleagues are putting on the floor here. It was that we lost days and I wanted to put us on a calendar track. April 11 gives 12 days for amendments to be submitted and then a subsequent week after that for them to be contemplated, which is well within the normal timeline of committee business. My colleagues are putting down to push it further and further ahead.
I'm trying to keep the committee on the timeline that it set for itself, recognizing that we were supposed to be done this legislation on April 18. The original motion was to begin clause-by-clause on April 18, so to waste witness time.... I'm more than happy to call witnesses back next week, but I'm not supportive of this amendment.