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Last week the House voted, largely along party lines, to repeal the new health care law. Senate Republicans have pledged to force a similar vote in the Senate, but Majority Leader Harry Reid has said he will not allow a vote on the floor.

The Senate this week failed to pass meaningful rules reform aimed at making the upper chamber a democratic institution and preventing the minority from engaging in obstructionist activity. Instead, the Senate, with bipartisan support, adopted minor tweaks to existing rules, ending ?anonymous holds? on nominees and ending the right of individual senators to force the reading of an amendment that has already been submitted for 72 hours and is publicly available.

The Senate's failure to adopt meaningful rules changes yesterday has real consequences for working families and our democracy.

Anti-union politicians and pundits are trying to pin the blame for the bad economy on public workers and their pensions, falsely claiming they're the reason that states and cities are at risk of going broke.