I don't want to be obstructionist here at all, because I think we want to do this. I think we have some statutory timelines here that we have to recognize, but we have to line them up.
We want to do this. We want to do this with urgency. We have to do estimates before they're deemed. I would even go so far as to argue that...maybe I missed it, but I don't think the committee has really gotten into the infrastructure side of this committee's work yet at all, in terms of bringing in officials and doing the infrastructure programs.
I think it's going to very difficult for us to do estimates without having a better understanding than most of the members of the committee would have on the infrastructure programs. It's a lot of money. It's policy-driven. I think it's an important thing for the committee to get its mind around.
I don't think these are impossible things to accomplish either, frankly, but I think we should charge the subcommittee to lay that out so that you can go back to the committee with a program to get the things done that need to be done, and we can just inform you for your deliberations--whoever is deliberating--and come back and see if that satisfies everybody.
There are some real deadlines here. There's a huge one looming in terms of estimates.