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Where republican members were able to vent or express their own anxieties and were able to deal with it amongst themselves in the room. keeping it in the room. i remember that day when the members were going off on the mini retreat and they were not allowed to bring copies of what they were seeing back to study. it s much like some classified briefing. i think it was a smart tactic. obviously what we are seeing is they learned from the failure of the obamacare repeal and replace, and learning from your mistakes is a good thing. let s give them credit for that. basically there were nine tax reform bills that were, you know, put together a million years ago. they knew exactly what they wanted to do and some things were more politically palatable and some would not survive. there were a lot of sacred cows. they had a lot of virgins but ....
Deserves a lot of credit, with the debacle of obamacare rollout, i believe this is a huge difference that s unifier. we have 157 members in the republican committee, 20 freedom caucus members as well as tuesday group and one of the things that i was watching at mini retreat is how well they are buying in and it seems to be universal idea that this is the time and urgency and framework has really brought us together. julie: you helped take the lead to get passed in the house. here is the problem, who works in the house doesn t necessarily work in the senate. health care, how can the senate avoid the same pitfalls seen in health care overhaul? i believe we try today reach out earlier this time. when we passed obamacare repeal, the senate and really con descending said well, that s well and good, we will get together and do our own thing. that didn t work out that well. that s why there needs to be increasingly pressure on mitch mcconnell to engage. you look ....