The fact of the matter is there were only 5 members to start with, as the word got out more joined, there were eventually 50 members who came back, some carrying luggage and wearing shorts, members who cut their vacations short to join their fellow representatives on the floor of a dead house. Yeah, you can extrapolate all you want but the fact is, this was spontaneous. Call your rep, call the leader, call the whip, call the President, ask for an emergency session, but of course whiners like you don’t call they just bitch!
I’m not “whining” by any definition of the word. I’m merely pointing out that this was superb political theater.