House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Compassion for Vulnerable and Struggling Workers Act
Official title: To provide that former civil service employees who were wrongfully fired are eligible to enroll in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick D-FLWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 26, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 26, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 1597.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. CHERFILUS-McCORMICK, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 38, February 26, 2025, Page H879):Article I of the U.S. ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record February 26, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 34 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 1597, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/1597
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 24, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
46b27c703b28e325da9a957c9bffeb824631c0aa26699123a80a63eebc0a60c8
PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of July 24, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
13 cosponsors — 13 Democrats
0 of 13 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Shontel Brown (D-OH), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), Al Green (D-TX), Henry Johnson (D-GA), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Dina Titus (D-NV), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Maxine Waters (D-CA).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick.
- H.R. 5676 (119th) Stop Stealing Our Jobs Act
- H.R. 1114 (119th) L’Ouverture Economic Development Plan for Haiti Act of 2025
- H.R. 3489 (119th) Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Physicist Pay Cap Relief Act
- H.R. 4586 (119th) AIDA
- H.Res. 829 (119th) Recognizing the significance of equal pay and the pay disparity between disabled women and both disabled and nondisabled men.
- H.R. 2927 (119th) All-Americans Tax Relief Act of 2025
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.