In a rare feat in Washington, Maine Congressman Jared Golden on Wednesday convinced more than half of the House of Representatives to do an end-run around Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Golden, a Democrat who represents Maine's 2nd Congressional District, is the lead sponsor of a bill to restore collective bargaining rights that President Trump eliminated earlier this year for hundreds of thousands of federal workers. Golden and a Republican lawmaker from Pennsylvania, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, had introduced the bill soon after Trump signed his executive order on March 27.

But Johnson, R-Louisiana, would not bring his bill up for a vote. So Golden and allies gathered the 218 signatures necessary — representing more than half of the House — to trigger a "discharge petition" to forc

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