An individual can provide a limited number of “lost” emails. Having not recovered all the “lost” email they will not receive the $1,000,000 provided by this Bill.
It’s not a question of “thinking outside the box”, but of being realistic.
It’s definitely a matter of thinking outside the box since neither of us know the answer to your original question or how many emails are missing.
Realistically speaking, it is clear that Flores and Gohmert need to put some meat on the bones of their bill, on that we should agree.