In my view, if you're going to go down this road, you have to go all in. I think you have to fund everything. Meritorious programs that you can't afford today will just have to wait. That's what's happening now. You will have a better program than having nothing, but if you replace what is in place now, which is nothing, with a program that is biased because you do this consultation, then you don't assure yourself of a program that will yield Carter-like decisions. Remember, if the “reasonable chance of success” test was there, Carter would never have been funded.
It seems to me that you need to just...first in, first out.