Beat me to it. Ol’ Hank has got to be the dumbest Congress critter we have. And that’s saying a lot.
The reaction of the military guy he was questioning was priceless. He said, trying to keep a straight face: “er, we don’t expect that to happen” (Guam “capsizing” due to over population).
Sheila Jackson Lee
Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives
from Texas's 18th district
On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]
Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee#Political_career
(Earth's inner core is only about 7,000 degrees F. The outer core even less)