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>> thank you so much. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. mr. speaker, mr. vice president, members of congress, my fellow americans, today in america a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it and did her part to lift america's graduation rate to its highest levels in more than three decades. an entrepreneur flipped on the lights in her tech start-up and did her part to add to the more than 8 million new jobs our businesses have created over the past four years. an auto worker fine tuned some of the best, most fuel-efficient cars in the world and did his part to help america ...

People by the end of the year who will not have unemployment benefits if it all keeps going the way it's going with republicans saying no to everything. at what point does it become a we? hey, we are getting hurt by this. when do the republicans start saying in the house a lot of my voters throughout who are getting denied benefits. >> well, i think the we, i think joan was on to something when she talked about the change in the language from rand paul. the fact that we got these six republican votes today. that tells me that they're at least acknowledging the they changing to we if they're no...

Search of a bargain with these people who have moved the goalpost so far to the right. my worry is that we sort of end up with parties -- i mean, i really do think the democratic party has come much further to the center. what the implications post-obama? >> i don't know. i think everyone is firmly ensconced in their camps. you can't take out the demographics. you have 30 years of wage stagnation. at the same time, you have this incredible demographic shift taking place in the country. you've got all the guysic l lik i'm from michigan, the auto worker, big buffy guys. >> you're a big, buffy gu...

Begins to fall. so what happens in 1973? 1973, something called the business roundtable forms. a bunch of corporations that decide they want to roll the clock back to make this country work only for 1% of america and roll back the time of that middle class workers made and they begin a three-part deliberate plan. one, offshore the jobs in this country. that's a deliberate trade policy made in advance by the business roundtable. so suddenly you have an auto worker in michigan who had a decents middle class standard wage. not mike too much money, put up against a worker making $1 in mexico in fa...

Surmountable. you're saying that goods organizing can overcome the legislative hurd? >> yes absolutely. i want to back up what you said and also say, look, part of the history lesson in this country is that it wasn't like being an auto worker in 1920 was a great job. what happened is unions came along and workers decided to fight collectively to make the auto sector a good job. the same thing has to happen right now and we need -- we went from an we've gone from manufacturing industrial economy to a service economy and it will take the same conscious, deliberate effort on the part of americans...