The subcommittee is supposed to be a steering committee, and in order to be that, it actually has to get work done and make decisions. If the subcommittee operates only by consent and there isn't consent on something and it has to be brought back to the main committee, that's just a waste of time.
We're here to try to expeditiously move through things. We have to have a subcommittee that can make decisions so that the whole committee can get work done. To me that's why the amendment makes sense: we can have decisions at the subcommittee and we don't have to continuously come back to the committee and say we couldn't reach a decision, and chew up more committee time trying to make a decision about a decision.
I think this amendment makes an enormous amount of sense.