I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.
“One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River.”
“We can recognize and give credit where credit is due, to the debt of taste we owe Europe, but we have taste, too.”