Thank you very much.
I was quite frankly a little taken aback and disappointed by my colleagues' comments with respect to this. I think my colleagues are conflating and even misunderstanding the definition of “partisanship”. In fact, our sole driving force and—whether it be Mr. Sorenson or Mr. Christopherson or Madam Block—our entire team's job as this committee is to get to the truth here. We are being obfuscated from getting to that truth.
It has to be said. It's intellectually dishonest to be calling out partisanship while you're filibustering. Why would we not just have a vote, get to the answers we need to have, and we get on with this matter? It's our job as a committee. We are a non-partisan committee. We're not here to protect the government; we're here to get to the truth.