Thank you.
I have an objection to continually suspending. I've done clause-by-clause and BIA implementation several times, and while I understand that it's a complex bill, we've done complex bills before. We were able to hear rationale from others on their recommendations. We can continue to read out the amendment for officials to hear it and get comment on it. However, continually suspending every time—it's not just this one but when others make amendments—is just delaying our ability to get through this bill.
I think we need to be able to have the conversation. We have simultaneous translation. We have officials. We can reread it as many times as is needed. However, I don't think that continually suspending to print documents for a few words being changed is going to be reasonable, given what we are going to have to do in the future. For future meetings, if we have minor amendments, we can try to be prepared with additional paper copies.
In my eight years, I've never seen this, where we can't just continue to have this conversation about what the amendments are and what they mean. We've now supplied it to all members. We can reread it into the record as many times as needed for everybody to get caught up, but I think that suspending is not going to allow us to move forward on this bill in a productive way.