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Introduction of the Foreign Service Voluntary Early Retirement Authority Act of 2025

Floor Speech

Date: June 26, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, today, I introduce the Foreign Service Voluntary Early Retirement Authority Act of 2025. This bill would allow members of the Foreign Service to use Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (VERA) when an agency is undergoing a reduction in force (RIF) or other restructuring. While most other federal employees are eligible for VERA if their agencies are undergoing a RIF or other restructuring, the members of the Foreign Service are not.

I strongly oppose the Trump administration's efforts to fire federal employees and to dismantle the federal government, and I will continue to fight those efforts using every tool at my disposal. However, it is important to mitigate the harm where we can, which this bill would do.

I urge my colleagues to support this bill.

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