so, charles cooper, you have a mike, would you please have something to say? >> thank you very much, peter. i would like to ask the very distinguished panel a question. and i especially would like to address this question to my old friends, walter dellinger. as you mentioned, i spent some time in the office of legal counsel executive branch and i bow to no one. in my troercreference to articl. my friends have outlined this is unsustainable. i want to ask a question that seems to me to be the hardest one in my mind for those like llc and others who defend these recess appointments as. and that is it. doug, you mentioned you think these are a sham, that's the term that olc used and others have. so i want you to focus on two familiar dates. december 23rd, the day on which the senate and the house, both in pro forma sessions, passed law by unanimous consent. and in so doing, not only complied with their obligation to meet every third day in the absence of the consent of the other body, and so we're in that session actually performing a constitutional responsibilit