There are so many nuts and bolts to the operation of a daily sitting that you really only find out when you're testing it. Having had the mock sessions, that has hammered home for me the necessary co-operation. If you don't have it, then even just small technical things are difficult to hammer out.
I can't imagine how we would make this work if, between the House leaders, we weren't able to quickly...because that's the challenge. You need to make decisions quickly. In that environment, you don't have the luxury of time to consult for weeks and weeks on whether you should change this standing order to allow this or that. You need to operate, and you need to solve a problem in real time that, although it might sound nerdy and procedural, has a real impact on the participation of any given representative. You have a high-stakes proposition and very little time to solve it. If everything has to get passed on to a committee or if there's dissent that needs to be ironed out, additional time is taken, and you potentially lose the effective and essential participation of members.
I think it's absolutely critical, and our mock sessions, our test runs, have really proven that.