Perhaps I have an alternative suggestion.
You are correct, Chair. The idea of a subcommittee meeting is not a tenable one given the fact that procedure would then require us to come back to committee. We're burning too much committee time when we have these things that obviously need to be dealt with.
Perhaps I have a compromise. We have two witnesses, which would mean we'd be cutting back on the number of opening statements. Obviously, each witness would get more time for questions than they'd have in an ordinary meeting with three or four. Perhaps you could look into extending the meeting. You could still provide us with an hour, but do an hour and a half with witnesses and then an hour of committee business. The meeting would be two and a half hours, if that's possible. If that's not possible, then I suggest we go with your previous suggestion that it be one hour and one hour.
If we can extend it by half an hour, that will give the two witnesses a good period of time. Then we still would get the hour of committee business.