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"Congress",
"Workforce",
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"American Federation of Government Employees",
"Chris Van Hollen",
"collective bargaining",
"Democracy Forward",
"Federal Workforce Caucus",
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"textContent": "The launch of the bicameral Federal Workforce Caucus comes after a year of major changes to the career civil service under the Trump administration.",
"title": "Lawmakers form new caucus to advocate for federal workforce reforms"
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