I think it's a good idea to have extra meetings to make sure we get the work done. If my memory is correct, some of these groups have attended this committee, but they have attended other committees to deal with the very same subject matter. Are they going to bring something new? Most of their considerations were related to the Supreme Court challenge. Now that we have the Supreme Court decision, and this based on it, if we're going to have 15 different organizations that want to come, I want to be able to restrict--that's why I think we can do more than two--the questioning and discussion to the subject matter at hand in the bill, and not do the whole issue all over again. All we'll be doing is going to hear testimony about things we've had before. The reason I said I'd be prepared to say yes to this is provided we restrict it, and you can ask the question and go through, so we could have three or four organizations attend, rather than just two.
On November 20th, 2007. See this statement in context.