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Well, we would meet in the, in the Lindy Boggs Room, off Statuary Hall. It was a smaller group then, so we all fit. 

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We would talk about some of those issues that—you know, I, an example is I remember there was an issue surrounding the efficacy of breast implants, 

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and one of our female Members had breast cancer and was talking about reconstruction. And the FDA Commissioner at the time, we felt,

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was a bit cavalier and not understanding the discussion that was taking place, as opposed to just being purely cosmetic.

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And, and we all kind of rallied around this one Member to say, "Okay, how, how do we help? How do we expand this conversation?"

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When there were some disagreements over the Violence Against Women Act, you know, we would, we would meet to say, 

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"Okay, here's, here's how we're going to handle this, you know. We're going to move this through and we're going to try to do these things. 

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You guys have to stand down and not call us right-wing extremists for a few days."

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We would have those sort of conversations that would allow us to actually acknowledge the difficulties, at any given time, of our political parties.

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And, and where we agreed to disagree, those conversations did not come up.