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And in addition, and this part of it is giving me a lot of trouble, because how do you get a commission made up of people who aren't already polarized? And who selects them? And if you leave it to the normal political process (which for a commission would be the Speaker selects four people and two of them will be Republicans and two of them will be Democrats and the president of the Senate does the same and the President of the country has a similar number), then it's going to be very political -- and the best that you'll have then is that each side will try to put on there protagonist 50-50. Well, that's not going to help, because they already come there with a point of view, which they're going to try to get established as the recommendations and it will probably be a Mexican stand-off. And on the other hand if you simply took the bureaucrats, I'm not sure that that's very helpful, because they also have positions. And I've been wrestling with this thing -- how do you do it? -- and I also happen to be on the Federal Privacy Commission, and I know it's going to be a full-time job, because while I'm a member of the Federal Privacy commission, I don't think we're doing as good a job or that any commission can do as good a job as a commission made up of people who do it full time. The Privacy Commission, of which I'm a member, has met three or four times. It'll meet maybe three or four more times or maybe ten more times, and it meets for two days, maybe even





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