House Hearings Set For Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection

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Source: WebWire

Government Oversight and Reform Committee To Meet On May 14, 2009 At Rayburn Office Building Room 2154


On Thursday May 14th at 10 AM, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will be holding a hearing "Protecting the Public from Waste, Fraud and Abuse: H.R. 1507, the Whistleblower Protecting Enhancement Act of 2009" Please visit the National Whistleblowers Center website: www.whistleblowers.org for updated information on the hearing.

This is a critical hearing in which whistleblower advocates will present testimony rebutting the extensive backroom lobbying of federal executive agencies bent on defeating federal employee whistleblower protections.

In March 2009, as part of the federal stimulus package, the House enacted whistleblower protections for all federal employees. Federal executive agencies, which are one of the last segments of the federal economy to escape meaningful whistleblower protections, spiked the bill in the Senate and it was struck from the final stimulus package. The whistleblower advocacy community is continuing to urge Congress to pass federal employee whistleblower protections this year.



Read more: http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=94821

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These people will be there:

Bunnatine Greenhouse (Halliburton whistleblower)

From National Whistleblowers Center:
David K. Colapinto (Counsel for Sibel Edmonds)
Michael D. Kohn
Stephen M. Kohn

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1. Self kick (for Sibel Edmonds - whistleblower extrordinaire). . n/t

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2. K&R.