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Constituents -- from constituents were a big part of this, but you remember being in those meetings when president obama was in the white house and the leadership was trying desperately to control the rank and file. and there was no way they could do it and that's why john bainer is no longer speaker. now all of a sudden they have somebody who -- won very well in all of their districts saying, excuse me, don't do this. and they're like, okay. >> the one interesting thing is this wasn't the rank and file backed ventures pushing this nish tich. they had been around a while. >> good point. >> thi...