I'm fine with it, but just a thought: do we really want to tie the hands of the chair?
Let's say the committee is caught up in something and we have debated it. It came here from the subcommittee, we debated it, we're still nowhere, and we send it back to the steering committee to work on some details to try to make some sense of it. Given that it's controversial, it may not have unanimity available to it. We may be tying the hands of the subcommittee to at least have a vehicle of a recommendation that would come. By tying their hands, we may....
It's not that big a deal, but I'm just saying, as a small detail, that I'm not necessarily that keen on it. There are times when we want the committee to act in a leadership role and make a recommendation, but most of the time we don't get into that. I'm just saying, do we really want to deny the chair the right to cause a positive recommendation to be denied? That's all.