Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Senate Rules Reform

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 21, 2013.

Time and again, Republican Senators have put political obstruction ahead of what’s best for America. Their unprecedented abuse of the Senate rules is a naked attempt to nullify the last election by denying President Obama his picks for critical judicial and executive branch posts. But the Constitution does not allow a minority of one house of Congress to hold the other two branches of government hostage. We applaud the leadership of…