I will try to be as brief as possible to give Mr. Vis back his chance to go on and on about things.
Let me just say off the top that I think this whole discussion we've been having over the last two meetings would have been completely avoided if we'd had a discussion about the report of the subcommittee when it was handed out. I can't comment on the contents or what went on at subcommittee, because it was in camera, but I was surprised, certainly, at the report. I thought it was incomplete. It didn't really cover all the issues that were discussed and all the conclusions. We could have come up with a plan of work that I think everybody would have been happy with, or at least I thought we had accomplished that in the subcommittee meeting. Obviously, that wasn't the case.
I'll just start with that. Again, I'm new on this committee, but normally when we have a subcommittee meeting, or when we do at other committees, that's the first thing on the agenda when we come back. The subcommittee met, and let's have a short in camera meeting about our work plan or whatever the subcommittee met about.
I'll just say that, to me, this was completely avoidable. I find this whole back-and-forth, with witnesses having to stand down, just really bad management. I think what we're seeing here are motions that try to fix this, yet we're just going in circles.
What I meant to do in my short time speaking here was just to put forward an amendment to the motion to fix all this, to make everybody happy, but I'm assuming that I don't have that opportunity now.