Protect America's Workforce Act

Floor Speech

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Ms. RANDALL. Mr. Speaker, I thank Ranking Member Garcia and Congressman Golden for the opportunity to speak on Protect America's Workforce Act.

Mr. Speaker, I represent 27,000 Federal employees who have been through an incredibly challenging year marked by reckless DOGE firings, chaotic rehirings, and unprecedented uncertainties.

They have been stripped of their ability to collectively bargain through President Trump's March executive order. They have been subjected to harassment and questioning of their political loyalties for nonpartisan positions. They live in constant fear that they may lose their jobs due to illegal reduction-in-force efforts that the administration has been trying to get away with.

As a result, we are losing talented and highly skilled workers at rates we can't afford. For Naval Base Kitsap, which includes Submarine Base Bangor and the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, that is a national security issue.

I am a proud former union member and the daughter of union members, and I will always fight to protect union rights. What is true about Kitsap, where I grew up, is that we are not red or blue, but we are a union town. That is why I was proud to cosponsor this bill and a proud signer of the discharge petition.

Mr. Speaker, today, I will be a proud ``yes'' vote on passage.

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