Thank you, Chair.
I have not repeated myself. Maybe I have a little bit, to respond to repeated comments by my colleagues and to repeat refutation of points that have been remade by my colleagues opposite.
I would respectfully suggest to them that it's probably in their best interests to actually hear out the arguments and engage with them, rather than think that they're going to throw me off with these repeated points of order, because they will not, and their colleagues have found the same.
The purpose of committees, just to briefly sum up, is to inform the deliberations of the House, not simply to inform the small group of members who are on the committee. Therefore, it is the normal and proper thing in every case for a study to lead to a report to the House.
In the fall, we took the clear, firm, and principled position that the families had to be heard from, and having used all of the tools—