I have the chair, Mr. Viersen. I have the floor right now. Please, let's not get into crosstalk.
You made a comment and I'm replying to the comment. My comment, as the chair, is to get down to the business of the mandated procedures that are in front of us, with regard to the very substantive motions that have been given notice today.
Regarding the other matters, we'll take an offline discussion as to how we want to proceed, or if we want to proceed, with regard to other comments or the feelings of the committee and so on, because really it is endless. There is no end to that, and that's fine. Everything that comes up we all consider, when we open up the paper or watch TV in the morning. Things fall on us. However, are we delaying what we are mandated to do by going off on tangents?
I'm going to ask that we hold this conversation off. We'll take a look at the mandate and come up with an approach at our next meeting. I really didn't want to—