Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
The reality is that we put a whole lot of work into this. The clerk and the analysts did a whole lot of work on this and it went through twice.
Even though it went through liaison, it ultimately got rejected because parties have a veto power to reject this. Clearly one party here does not want this to happen. I'm not willing to go through more work to make a proposal where it's ultimately going to be rejected.
It's a lesson learned, you know. Those are the kinds of things I live by. I'm not willing to go through this again.
The other thing I should point out is that, aside from the work that the clerk and the analysts have put into this, we also wasted time at our committee, because a schedule was premised on this trip. We wasted a bunch of meetings, which I'm super grumpy about. When you lose time, you can't get it back.
I'm not willing to do it again, because one party has that veto power and exercises that veto power accordingly, so I'm not willing to submit any more requests.