Thank you.
I believe that Mr. Strahl is the vice-chair. I know that he's not in the room, but I would just take this opportunity. There seems to be a trend as of late that committee chairs may have taken lessons, or something to that effect, to tread a very fine line, where it seems that members' privileges can be violated without regard, and that by using a coalition of left-leaning parties the rights and privileges of members can be trodden upon without discretion.
Certainly, we've seen that at the natural resources committee, where there were such egregious violations of members' privileges that it seemed to truly disrupt and delegitimize the democratic process that we have—