Teamsters union president Sean O'Brien testified before a Senate committee on Wednesday and expressed appreciation for Republican lawmakers' efforts to reach out to labor unions and work with them on legislation.

O'Brien testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee at the invitation of Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., to discuss proposals for reforming labor laws .

"I'm encouraged that I've been invited here as a guest of the Republican majority, that is a positive change," O'Brien said.

"For as long as I have been a Teamster, neither party has spearheaded an effort to reach bipartisan agreement on labor reform," he explained. "The Democrats have played political football with massive labor reform bills. Republicans have largely reintroduced

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