Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to introduce the Preventing a Patronage System Act, a bill that would prevent any position in the federal civil service from being reclassified outside of merit system principles without the express consent of Congress. The bill would secure the civil service and protect tens of thousands of federal employees from losing job protections and due process rights.
“Workplace protections for federal workers exist for a reason: so any one administration cannot fire career employees and install their own political appointees,” said Senator Feinstein. “Career federal workers are committed to public service and serving the greater good, and they fulfill a range of critical roles from protecting national security to bolstering our nation’s pandemic response to safeguarding our communities. These career federal employees must be protected from politics so they can do their jobs, and that’s what our bill would accomplish.”
“Our civil service plays an invaluable role in everything from our national security to the administration of Social Security benefits, and it’s in Americans’ best interest that those positions be filled with the most qualified applicants,” said Senator Kaine. “This legislation would put commonsense safeguards in place to protect the merit-based hiring system for our federal workforce, and...
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