I would move that the committee instruct the chair to give participants notice when he is planning on arbitrarily assigning half of a meeting to this particular issue.
I move it, and my rationale is this. I think it is a topic that the chair himself argued was a subtopic within, and if all we see is a witness's name, not understanding that this was part of a sub-study scope, I think it's just kind of beating around the bush. Perhaps we could have better prepared. I would ask my colleagues that perhaps, just out of courtesy, the chair would inform committee when he is doing such a thing.
Also, my understanding was that we had had some time to talk about witnesses for this, so I'm wondering how witnesses were selected for this sub-study and why we only have one person on a panel. When this is half of a meeting and we have only one witness here, that seems like a bit of a waste of time—