The board tries to be responsive to the demands that members are making, so I guess it's a matter of convincing members that further demands for funding for MOBs or additional services are unnecessary. That's not an easy job. I know that the whips work at this persistently in caucus meetings, from the rumours I hear, but I'm sure it's very difficult for them, because once you start providing a service, even a minimal service, members ask why they're not getting it as well as someone else is getting it elsewhere. You start with maybe a thing like wireless telephone service, and people want better ones and better ones. We've got quite good ones now, but I'm sure it's costing more than it cost when we first allowed members to buy a cell phone out of their members' office budgets. But then they're getting better quality service too.
On May 11th, 2006. See this statement in context.