"I’m not asking you for a list of specific gripes. I have a long list of those already. What I need is, well, how shall I put this.... The spin, the big picture. The pitch. The Message. You see, the new Congress has three brand-new Senators on the Science Committee. They lack the in-depth experience of the Committee’s very, very long-serving former chairman, Senator Dougal of Texas. It’s really an entirely new game in Washington now."