Mr. Chairman, I'm new to the committee, but my understanding of the process of committees is that the committee undertakes a study, the members of the committee present a list of witnesses they'd like to hear from, and the clerk invites these people to come and speak. Sometimes people will present information with which we don't necessarily agree, but we've invited them to come and speak to our committee. Therefore, I think it's an obligation of our committee to hear them for their 10 minutes. Let them speak, and then we can question them, or we can ignore them.
On October 15th, 2012. See this statement in context.