Mr. Chairman, I know the department has to come here and brief us on the initiation of our study, but as I recall in our discussions regarding high-speed rail, we did not close off definitively at Thursday. It was my understanding that if we required a little bit more time to hear witnesses, the committee would meet to make the decision on extension. We weren't definitively cutting off Thursday, and we weren't definitively moving beyond Thursday. So I just wanted to clarify that we were going to meet afterwards to see whether we had heard everybody we wanted to hear.
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