together in a bipartisan way and sometimes in disagreement with our own leadership or our own white house in the past. so i think the american people expect and deserve a bipartisanship to take place and let s hope that it s there because then we ll get our most sustainable solutions. we come here to find common ground. if we can t find it, we have to stand our ground. but we have a responsibility to try. before heading into today s so-called fiscal cliff negotiations with the white house and the republicans in congress, you heard there the top democrat in the house, nancy pelosi, telling me in an exclusive interview, her first interview after announcing that she would stand again to be house democratic leader, that the republican attitude toward president obama these past two years is an aberrant thing. it should not be seen as normal. when she was speaker and george w. bush was president, they were able to get a reasonable amount
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elected 25% of our caucus is new, younger, women and minorities, 50% of our caucus, women and minorities and lgbt community folks. so we thought it was a great night. the election of the president to protect health care and the rest. increase our numbers in the senate, increase our numbers in the house. so i didn t really know what the point was unless it was it about winning? was it about not winning enough seats or was it just about age? and a combination of age and gender. you re saying. that it s a different that was the point. right. it was and i you know, we all live with each other around here, no offense taken except the women took great offense. and i made the point that one of my goals was to bring women in younger so they could start getting seniority sooner. not to wait as i did until my children were practically in college, all in college.
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stay on prohibits the party from having a younger leadership and will be hurts the party in the long term. what s your response to that? leader pelosi. asked that question except to mcconnell. anything about mr. excuse me, you, mr. hoyer, you re all over 70. is staying on younger leadership from moving forward? does this delay younger leadership from moving forward? i think what you will see, let s for a moment honor it as a legitimate question. although it s quite offensive. but you don t realize that, i guess. the fact is, the fact is is that everything that i have done in my almost decade i guess decade now of leadership, is to