"We had an agreement that we wouldn't move a bill forward that had provisions that we couldn't agree on."
"You really do have to incentivize bipartisanship."
"if it only does this and this, then we are going consider this to be a failure."
"That might have been the hardest part of it."
"I think it is important that we are here, but we ought to also take advantage of the technology stuff."
"I agree with Fred. It is important to be here and that is how you get a lot done, but I think you have to balance that against people's need to be with their families in their districts."
"It does diminish the time you can actually work on substantive legislation."
"there is nothing more satisfying than, believe you me, than standing next to the President while he signs your bill that is going to help fix biomedical research that will help millions of patients."
"Here is what we did. We asked everybody that we met with to submit their ideas."
"We want to try to pass this bill this year----"
"I think during the orientation, there should be many more--I don't--I don't know if some of--maybe some of the newer Members could say, but when I went through orientation in 1997, many of the orienta..."
"Maybe we should do more all-Member events."