are the ones who get left behind. >> but senator, you guys were in power for the last eight years. why is it that it didn't work for those good americans that you were working americans who u were working for. >> the republicans had a blocking position. when they didn't have a blocking position, we got the affordable care act through, and when they didn't have acking position, we got through the wall street reforms. but once they had a blocking position in the senate and then in the house, we couldn't get the minimum wage increase. we couldn't get increases into social security. we couldn't get a more progressive tax bill. so, look. i don't want to try to shuffle off off the blame. i think there's plenty that we can, do we should have done, we must do in the future on our side of the aisle. but let's be very clear. the republicans have made their part of the agenda 100% obvious.