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Protect College Sports Act of 2026
“I want Congress to pass this bill to protect federal workers. The president took away their union and bargaining rights, and that harms hundreds of thousands of workers in Maryland. This bill gives them those rights back.”
“Mr. President, I would like to thank my colleague from Virginia for his leadership on this critical bill. Both Maryland and Virginia have uniquely felt the pain from this administration’s effort to attack Federal workers. They are our constituents, patriots who serve this country no matter the party; people who have been disrespected over and over again by efforts to weaken their collective power. This administration has spent all of this time driving up the cost of everything from gas to groceries, starting wars that we are paying for at home, making healthcare unaffordable and making our lives worse. But what is the real threat in their eyes? Our patriot civil servants, patriotic civil servants. It is a cruel lie meant to cause division and distract the American people from the awful things the Republicans are doing. The fact is, President Trump and Russell Vought are afraid of the collective power of these workers. They are afraid that Federal workers’ ability to fight back through collective bargaining will keep them from bending the government to their will. President Trump stripped Federal workers of their hard-won collective bargaining rights, one of the most significant acts of union busting in our Nation’s history, all in the name of national security. Since then, he started a war in Iran with no exit strategy, bombed eight countries, and awarded billions of dollars in defense contracts to his sons and cronies. The real threat to our national security is not our dedicated civil servants; it is this corrupt President and his reckless administration. Together my colleagues and I are instead laser-focused on protecting these patriotic Federal workers on fighting back against efforts to erode their rights in the workplace. And this is personal for me and for the 460,000 Marylanders who serve the Federal Government. We will not stop fighting until the Protect America’s Workforce Act is passed and our rights are restored.”
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Mr. President, I would like to thank my colleague from Virginia for his leadership on this critical bill. Both Maryland and Virginia have uniquely felt the pain from this administration’s effort to attack Federal workers. They are our constituents, patriots who serve this country no matter the party; people who have been disrespected over and over again by efforts to weaken their collective power. This administration has spent all of this time driving up the cost of everything from gas to groceries, starting wars that we are paying for at home, making healthcare unaffordable and making our lives worse. But what is the real threat in their eyes? Our patriot civil servants, patriotic civil servants. It is a cruel lie meant to cause division and distract the American people from the awful things the Republicans are doing. The fact is, President Trump and Russell Vought are afraid of the collective power of these workers. They are afraid that Federal workers’ ability to fight back through collective bargaining will keep them from bending the government to their will. President Trump stripped Federal workers of their hard-won collective bargaining rights, one of the most significant acts of union busting in our Nation’s history, all in the name of national security. Since then, he started a war in Iran with no exit strategy, bombed eight countries, and awarded billions of dollars in defense contracts to his sons and cronies. The real threat to our national security is not our dedicated civil servants; it is this corrupt President and his reckless administration. Together my colleagues and I are instead laser-focused on protecting these patriotic Federal workers on fighting back against efforts to erode their rights in the workplace. And this is personal for me and for the 460,000 Marylanders who serve the Federal Government. We will not stop fighting until the Protect America’s Workforce Act is passed and our rights are restored.