agen agenda, the prospects of getting any sort of major legislation through seem not that prieth. here s john yar moth, a democrat from kentucky who was asked about the spending retirement. he said i really do. i just got to the point where it wasn t worth it. it s pretty stressful. everybody is aware the system is broken and that becomes stressful. i don t know how long that guy had been in office. but do you feel that at all? well listen it s still an honor and privilege to serve in the congress. we are facing unprecedented obstruction from the tea party dominated republican kau kas in the house of represents. but not with standing that reality, over 14 months we ve seen five separate incidents in major areas where the hashtag rule has been violated open big picture ideas have been passed into law.
the super storm relief package a few weeks later in january of 2013, then in february the violence against women act, and then at the end of test last year we saw a budget agreement that rolled back some of the sequestration cuts. and then most recently earlier this month with the clean debt ceiling, that obviously would have been catastrophic. so in five areas we ve seen the hashtag rule violated that gives us hope that as long as democrats remain unified perhaps we can tackle the big picture issues because they have been tackled in the past. i served two terms. when the fiscal crisis happened, when people couldn t get home loans or car loans, when it went in the tank wall street, it was george bush and hank polson that