the food safety bill. what happened with a lot of these different bills. i think this is interesting, a lot of these establishment republicans, the guys on the stark treaty and the moderates, i think they realized if they didn t get this stuff done now, when their colleagues came in in 2011, they weren t going to get it done. these new revolutionaries in the house and senate, weren t going to go back because of what was passed in the senate and go back through. the folks needed to say, listen, we re not in an election right now, we have a month here, and they did it. they moved food safety, defense authorization, don t ask don t tell. they wanted to legislate. legislation lace is not as powerful to them as getting re-elected. it s a shame we can t see more of that public spirit more often. richard wolf, i think jane
successful keeping his caucus together like he has. these things wouldn t have gotten done, a lot of them, like the food safety bill. what happened with a lot of these different bills. i think this is interesting, a lot of these establishment republicans, the guys on the stark treaty and the moderates, i think they realized if they didn t get this stuff done now, when their colleagues came in in 2011, they weren t going to get it done. these new revolutionaries in the house and senate, weren t going to go back because of what was passed in the senate and go back through. the folks needed to say, listen, we re not in an election right now, we have a month here, and they did it. they moved food safety, defense authorization, don t ask don t tell. they wanted to legislate. legislation lace is not as powerful to them as getting re-elected. it s a shame we can t see more of that public spirit more often.