we had, what was it, my staff person tooley wright, he said last night you walked your dog. i wasn't in washington yesterday. last night you walked your dog at 11:00 p.m., it was 60 degrees. january 17th. i mean, to me, the notion that this isn't real is crazy. you can put that all aside and just talk about the jobs and the national security concerns and all the other things and not even talk about, you know, climate change or any of that if you don't want to. we need your help, you know, to talk to your representatives about this because we are definitely moving backward, not forward at this time. i've got to be honest with you. i'll leave it at that. thank you. >> thank you very much, congressman. questions, i believe mayor piercy has a question. >> we're running out of time, and i just -- you'll forgive me, mr. secretary and chair, i was going to talk about tarsands, but we're running out of time. i didn't want to let this meeting go without talking about what i consider to be a victory for clean energy and that is a bunch of us, about 103 mayors had signed a letter to th