Chair, I understand the request and the need for the request, and I have no challenge with that, and for the request of our witnesses. I would only be mindful: Is it spurious? Is it needed? I'm not offering comment on this, but understand that there's a cost to everything. If this is something that would be maybe $4,000 or $5,000 or $10,000 worth of investigative work...but all of a sudden if we're into hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of calculations and tabulations, is it money well spent? I would ask this committee to bear that in mind whenever we ask for information. That's all.
On April 16th, 2013. See this statement in context.