# H.R. 2550 (119th): Protect America's Workforce Act

Protect 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 this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: collective_bargaining. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: employment. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: executive_order_nullification. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: family_policy. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: federal_workforce. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: labor_relations. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 332: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill combines a plausible good, restoring statutory collective bargaining rights and honoring existing agreements against an executive exclusion, with ordinary prudential disputes over federal workforce management and the scope of executive authority. It does not directly restrain a named evil or directly advance a named moral harm, so it fits the mixed category.
Theological note: The measure bears on the just treatment of workers, the honoring of existing agreements, and the proper limits of executive authority over statutory labor rights. These are real concerns of general equity and stewardship, but the bill's main effect is a prudential dispute over federal labor policy rather than a direct advancement or restraint of a named moral evil.

## Recorded votes

Roll 332: On Passage. Yea 231 · Nay 195 · Other 7.

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