on the plane on trains, et cetera. it s nice having physicians around who can have a cool perspective, level headed perspective. sandra: why weren t you on the train? you weren t supposed to ask that kennedy. i m playing hooky. i promised my wife i would take her to see hamilton tonight. it only took us three years to get up here to see it but she is excited to see it, so we are playing hooky. sandra: can you tell us a little bit about this retreat to which members of congress were going right now and making their way there attempting to at least? typically both parties have a retreat in january. it s sort of where they regroup. they relax a little bit. but they hear from party leaders on sort of what are our goals for the year? what are things we are going to try to get accomplished? this is a common thing. it happens every year. sandra: we want to bring in congressman pete sessions. he was able to get on the phone and call into our control room right now. is he a republican