CWAers Leaflet Senators, Staff on Need for Senate Rule Changes

CWAers leafleted outside U.S. Senate office buildings this week as Senators and staff returned for a post-election legislative session. The goal: to alert Capitol Hill workers to the current abuse of Senate rules that has blocked nearly all Senate business for the past two years. 

In the past legislative session, the House passed more than 400 bills, many of which would have provided real support to working and middle class families.  Because of the Senate rules that permit an individual Senator to block even discussion of legislation, the Senate remained stuck in gridlock, with obstructionists in the Republican Party blocking important initiatives for working families, including improvements in food safety laws and an end to the tax breaks that corporations now get for moving jobs overseas. 

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