Michael Levitt, then governor of Utah and one of the primary proponents of the plan, looked back on the effort as a bold vision that adapted to the times. In the 1994 midterms, Republicans had a really good showing and ended up in control of all of Congress, a majority of the state governorships, and control of many state legislatures. After that point, people like Levitt, who were previously calling for this Conference of States to assert states' rights, felt like they didn't need to go that route anymore. And with the mechanisms of government in Republican hands, they could try that approach. Levitt literally said himself, As the new legislative agenda unfolded, those of us who had organized the Conference of States could see momentum had shifted in a direction we approved of, but in a fashion different than we had anticipated. We recalibrated the Conference of States effort into a far less grand vision, wrapped it up, and focused our energies on legislative proposals which would return more control of the nation's welfare system and Medicaid to state control.