On a point of order, I'd like to make a comment.
Speaking frankly, I think the chair was wrong last week to allow us to go outside the Standing Order. He's correct today. I think it's an abuse of the process and an abuse of the witnesses to have them go outside the area, and this committee surely has to have at least some rules of procedure to itself. The reason they're here is simply for their qualifications to do their job. Anything other than that I think is abuse of process.
Second, it should be the chair who decides that issue; the chair should not be asking how the witnesses perceive the jurisdiction of this committee. They've already indicated to us that questions outside of that should not be allowed, and I think that should be made an order and should stay there.