First of all, of course, it's smaller, but what that means on a practical level is that it's more intimate and you're in a position to have much closer relationships with colleagues, both on the Republican and Democratic side. That's number one. Number two, In the Senate, you really do have to get bipartisan cooperation to get big things done. That's not the case so much in the House, where it's really strictly majority rule. So those two things, the intimacy, the smallness that goes along with that, and then the bipartisan requirement to get things done. (04:31–04:37)
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