—at the Pentagon, we on many occasions will go with a minimum number, and we sometimes find that the subject matter and the availability of witnesses and the quality of the testimony we get demands that we have...or causes interest in the committee having additional meetings.
I am not opposed to four meetings; I am opposed to “a minimum” of four meetings.
We've done this before: We have planned on having a number of meetings and have found that we couldn't get the witnesses we needed and/or there have been other priorities. I think it would be more flexible on the committee's part, given the competing priorities, to have a minimum of two meetings. That doesn't preclude us from having four meetings and it doesn't preclude us from having six meetings, but if we're going to set a minimum that we're compelled to have under a motion, it ought to be a lower number. I would say two as a minimum, and we'll see where the study takes us.