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H.R. 2550119th CongressLabor and Employment
Protect America's Workforce Act
Sponsored by Rep. Jared F. Golden (D-ME) · 226 active : 9 Republicans, 217 Democrats
Latest action: Received in the Senate.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedDec 11, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govProtect America's Workforce Act
This bill nullifies the Executive Order titled
Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs
(issued on March 27, 2025), which excludes specified executive agencies and subdivisions from the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute. The statute authorizes federal employees' participation in collective bargaining and enforces collective bargaining rights.
The bill also specifies that a covered collective bargaining agreement in place as of March 26, 2025, shall have full force and effect through the stated term of the agreement.
How the projections held up
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
House
On PassagePassed231 yea, 195 nayDecember 11, 2025 · Roll call 332
| BandBand before the vote | VotedVoted yea or nay | BrokeBroke with party | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swing | 11 | 5 | 45% |
| Middle | 96 | 6 | 6% |
| Entrenched | 314 | 9 | 3% |
| All |
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · HouseReferred to
Subjects
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Labor-management relations
- Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 62Middle 30–70
- 29Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
Earlier behind swing-v3’s inputLoading similar votes
Cosponsors
226 activeShow all 226 cosponsors
- Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1)
- Debbie Dingell (D-MI-6)
- Donald Norcross (D-NJ-1)
- Mark Pocan (D-WI-2)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
- Michael R. Turner (R-OH-10)
- Nick LaLota (R-NY-1)
- Cleo Fields (D-LA-6)
- Daniel S. Goldman (D-NY-10)
- Dina Titus (D-NV-1)
- Don Bacon (R-NE-2)
- Donald S. Beyer (D-VA-8)
- Ed Case (D-HI-1)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC-AL)
- Emily Randall (D-WA-6)
- Gwen Moore (D-WI-4)
- James P. McGovern (D-MA-2)
- Jesús G. "Chuy" García (D-IL-4)
- John W. Mannion (D-NY-22)
- Kristen McDonald Rivet
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
