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THE CHAIRMAN: Any other members wish to be heard on the ranking member's --

MR. SCHIFF: Mr. Quigley is reclaiming the rest of his time.

MR1 QUIGLEY: I need to be recognized.

THE CHAIRMAN: Mr. Quigley is recognized for 5 minutes.

MR. QUIGLEY: And I would yield to the ranking member.

MR. SCHIFF: Oh. Thank you. I apologize. I forgot whose time it was.

So, apparently, full transparency doesn't mean full transparency. It means release the majority view first and delay the minority view.

I hope the majority will reconsider. There is nothing that the House Members, upon reading this memo, can tell us, because they don‘t have any more access to the underlying documents than the rest of this committee. So that is the most paltry of excuses for putting off the disclosure of the minority memo. What are we to --

MR. CONAWAY: Would the gentleman yield for a second?

MR. SCHIFF: Yes.

MR. CONAWAY: It would also give our staff a chance to review this memo in much greater detail than what has been available the last 20 minutes since it has been sitting on our desk.

So, whether it is Members looking at it or majority staff looking at it, I think it is appropriate to give some period of time to make that happen.

MR. SCHIFF: Well, reclaiming the time from my colleague, we provided the majority the same notice we got when it presented us with its minority -- a week or so ago -- with its memoranda a week or so ago.