13 House Republicans Vote With Democrats – Vote To Advance Bill To Reverse Trump Order
The American Lookout Headlines homepage has 60 new headlines every 24 hours - click here to see it.
13 House Republicans just sided with Democrats.
They voted with Democrats to advance a bill to reverse Donald Trump’s executive order cracking down on federal worker unions.
Thirteen House Republicans joined Democrats in advancing a bill to reverse President Donald Trump’s executive order cracking down on federal worker unions on Wednesday evening.
The bill was led by Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, who forced a vote on the measure via a mechanism called a discharge petition. It’s designed to force a vote on legislation over the wishes of leadership provided it gets support from a majority of House lawmakers.
A motion to proceed with debate and a vote on the final bill passed the House in a 222-200 vote. All 209 voting Democrats voted with 13 Republicans to advance the bill, which is now headed for another House-wide procedural hurdle Thursday.
…
The Republicans who voted to advance the legislation were Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., Rob Bresnahan, R-Pa., Don Bacon, R-Neb., Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., Tom Kean, R-N.J., Ryan Mackenzie, R-Pa., Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, Chris Smith, R-N.J., Pete Stauber, R-Minn., and Mike Turner, R-Ohio.
Trump’s order banned collective bargaining in certain federal agencies.
Trump’s executive order banned collective bargaining within multiple federal agencies, including parts of the Departments of Defense, State, Veterans Affairs, Justice, and Energy, as well as some workers in Homeland Security, Treasury, HHS, Interior, and Agriculture.
Federal employees, unlike their private-sector counterparts, already have restricted union rights: they cannot collectively bargain over wages or benefits and are barred from striking, but unions can negotiate on employment conditions.
