Some would say there still are.

That was pretty good, Senator Merkley. Very good.

I think in my State, the highest point of land in my State is a bridge.

over the last 650,000 years, we have had remarkable stability in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere.

I think it is close to four feet, maybe four to five feet.

about 125,000 years ago, when we had warming more or less at the same level that we are heading toward today, but that was for very different reasons, we had sea level rise of several meters.

The Tamil people there have been indiscriminately killed, disappeared, kidnapped, raped, and otherwise persecuted.

I'm going to stick with my gut feeling, and my gut tells me that I should take a chance on Senator Obama.

So, again, no recommendations, but these are options for Congress to consider.

Pretty good deal.

I think coming--something that should accompany that would be a plan, something that can be shared, explained, and can be used as an oversight tool to help you.

I certainly want to encourage you, to the extent that you can, to be transparent, more transparent and accountable.

I think I walk away from this hearing with a better understanding of how we find ourselves in this situation.

We should not be surprised that the Postal Service is struggling as well.

I want to ask you to come back to this a little bit more.

I think it could be useful, yes.

It is a little hard to understand at the end of the day how you got to a number like that.

That was over, what, a couple of years?