If there isn't a request back from the House with respect to this report, where is the point?
I don't know what's reasonable for a dissent, but it will all be in the hands of this committee, because obviously what I'll be saying in my dissent, essentially, is that's not the way to proceed--even if the committee has in the past--because you don't make reports in vacuums. Where I come from, you make them based on facts and opinions and positions, and if you don't expect a report back from the government, why are you making the report in the first place, when the reasoning behind it was to get something back from the government? As I understood it in the first place, if we're not asking for a response back, what are we really doing and what's the big hurry to get a dissent filed before the House rises? If that's what the committee wants to do, I'll do it, but I'm certainly not happy with that state of events or how we are proceeding on an issue of this importance.