I want to expand on that. When you came with this--and like Mike and some of my other colleagues here, I'm new at this, so we weren't involved with the process--did you expect that these proposals would be adopted? Did you suspect, possibly, that we would look at some of these things? Let's take that a step farther. My colleague is somewhat concerned that this is going to be an exercise in futility. Isn't the process--we've asked you for a lot of opinions, so I'm going to ask you for one as well--one where we engage you, and then you give us your expertise, but could there not be a possibility that your side might be somewhat prejudiced on the one end so that we need to ask those on the other side to come to a consensus? I would agree, a lot of these proposals are excellent, but there are a few that I'm very concerned about.
On June 19th, 2006. See this statement in context.