Mr. Chair, I hope you will bear with me as I present my rationale, and in order to present that rationale, as you know—no matter how many committees I've sat on or how many different venues I've participated in—in order to explain why I'm opposed to this, unless I make a linkage, it is as I said a very vacuous argument where the only thing one is talking about is earlier than or on this.
I believe that the argument—