Mr. Chairman, I will give you an example. When I was sitting on the Subcommittee on Solicitation Laws, our work was interrupted by the elections. The subcommittee had travelled, there had been an enormous number of hours and public funds invested in order to gather this testimony. The work was resumed later on, and at times we must come back to such information much later on. It would be most unfortunate to lose all those transcripts, which were made with great difficulty in the case I refer to. In fact, we had to meet with some witnesses in secret. It would be best to keep the documents. We therefore do not agree with the way in which you want to proceed.
On November 15th, 2007. See this statement in context.