I will save my private-sector questions for the next panel, but just one on the international organizations.

Great. Thanks, Ms. Drake.

I think both of you acknowledge that there is a significant complexity.

So just in terms of the testimony, Mr. Chair, to summarize some testimony that occurred, I think when you were out of the room, there is a coincidence of timing here, the potential of a recommendation from USTR to the White House at the…

I will certainly recommend to the chair that we come back and follow up on both of those matters in short order.

You and your colleagues must have had a sick feeling when the building collapsed and the news came across the wire, given the fact that you have raised this issue as a potential concern that many years ago.

Talk to me a little bit about the timing of that effort and when we might be expected to know something about it.

If the United States does not have a functioning National Labor Relations Board, that goes all the way down to the site, the small-factory level, and will prevent probably most organizing efforts from succeeding in the United States…

We do not have command and control of Bangladeshi regulations, culture of corruption, building codes, but we do have leverage.

And just since this is an industry internationally that I have no expertise in, even with the concerns that you laid out, a sizable number of the European manufacturers signed on to the Accord.

It is a serious decision. It is a Presidential-level decision for the United States.

In our opinion, one is too many. We are well beyond whatever anyone would need to see as evidence that the current system of the government's very feeble efforts and the voluntary compliance programs of the corporations simply are not…

The industry will support what the U.S. Government does here.

So the recommendation will be done by the end of June to the White House.

So it is a very aggressive antiworker stance to not want to have a National Labor Relations Board at all.

I gather it is sort of an iterative process.

Are North American and specifically American companies... do they balk at the notion of signing on to accords that encourage organization and association rights of workers in Bangladesh?

We must provide victims with absolute legal representation rights, not just advice.

It could be a lack of trust or lack of information.

The special victims' counsel pilot project within the Air Force, maybe one of the fears of reporting is the fear that you are going to be isolated and alone.

It sure serves its purpose by inviting that person who has that reticence.

Is the structure of the special victims' counsel set up to--so that a victim knows, well, I have an ally.

I think the last 3 years, Senator, I would say.

You must set the condition in your command where others know that retaliation will never be tolerated and set a zero tolerance for retaliation as well.

If reporting is key, and I think we all believe that to be the case, and if we are not likely to solve this problem, absent a culture that allows reporting to occur more significantly, based on your own experience in dealing with your…