fmr. rep. harman: or they may be in congress themselves. rep. petri: yes. but we all belong to associations in america. but of course, they don't all have the same views. where we serve, it is called the people's house. there is a reason for that. the focus of each representative is very much on the national issues and so on but also how it will effect of the people in their district and what they think of this and how they will react. one of the difficulties with an issue such as the one we have been discussing is it has very broad general support. that does not translate into -- it is not historically translated into votes. whereas the narrow percentage of people, it does translate into votes. therefore, people are not only listening to the majority, they are listening to the depths of concern as well. i could give examples of that, i don't know if i should. maybe i will. one of them -- of our colleagues, peter smith, from vermont, a moderate republican, voted for moderate gun control legisla