He still wanted to go, and after consulting with Al Gore and my national security team, I decided it was worth trying. Every year Congress passes bills more than a thousand pages long dealing with less profound and complex subjects. They had been burned once by being flexible and forthcoming, and they weren’t about to make the same mistake again. As Perot was getting back in, we finally reached an agreement with the Bush people on debates.
Less than two months after the triumph at Wye River, the negotiations were in trouble again. Senator Kent Conrad and Congressman Earl Pomeroy were reelected in North Dakota, a conservative Republican state, because th ith the Republicans over the Patients’ Bill of Rights—they said they’d pass it as long as no one could bring a law-suit to e We did, in what was later called the “Sushi Summit,” though Miyazawa always joked that the sake we drank contributed more than the sushi to the final outcome.
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