Trent Lott: “I would like to express our appreciation to Senator Feingold for his willingness to do that in an effort to accommodate…”

When you're dealing with 100 United States senators, let alone 435 House members, you're not going to get it all the way you want it. The president's going to have to give some, the president is going to have to show leadership.

We are going to start doing things a little differently. We are going to go back and do some of the things that worked.

Would you at the very least sit down with him and listen to him?

You've got to do that every now and then. Even though you might get your little flak from some of the people within your conference. It's called leadership.