division and partisanship in this event brought to you a joint partnership with the edward him kennedy is to do in the orange jeep catch foundation, the bipartisan policies center and a goal today is to try to foster discussion, based on principles, not politics much like the example of bipartisan ridge building it, semi democratic senator ted kennedy and republican senator orrin hatch and passing some of the most important legislation of their times such as the americans with disabilities act to, in the children s health insurance program. and forming an unlikely friendship, that transcended their partisan differences, and a spirit, and just a moment we will hear from independent senator bernie sanders of vermont and senator lindsey graham from south carolina and are used to facing off from their top post on the budget committee and clearly, they have very different views on the biggest issues facing the nation and for the next hour, we will try to find common ground constru
independent history of the united states congress so what i m going to tell you today is not something that you will hear often on fox and cnn or abc or the washington post or in fact in the whole congress and what i will tell you is that the working class in the middle class in this country are in serious trouble we are moving towards that oligarchic form a society where a small number of billionaires, not only have extraordinary wealth they have extraordinary political power. we are living at a time when half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck in the wealthiest country on earth and when 70 million americans have no health insurance or are underinsured, when we have a starvation a minimum wage at the