{"id":1189,"date":"2007-03-14T16:52:45","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T16:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whistleblowerlawyerblog.com\/2007\/03\/new_whistleblower_protection_e.html"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:56:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:56:27","slug":"new_whistleblower_protection_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/new_whistleblower_protection_e\/","title":{"rendered":"New “Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act” Passes U.S. House"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were excited to see that the U.S. House of Representatives today passed an important new whistleblower protection law, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act.<\/p>\n

We have discussed this new whistleblower bill previously<\/a>, as an encouraging development for whistleblowers and whistleblower lawyers. The new whistleblower law would protect federal employees and, now, also federal contractors, who report evidence of fraud, waste, abuse, gross mismanagement, or “substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.”<\/p>\n

Rep. Henry Waxman sponsored the new whistleblower protection bill, but Rep. Bruce Braley of Iowa also spoke eloquently today about why American taxpayers–and the American public’s security–demand that honest citizens must be able to bring to light evidence of fraud, waste, and abuse that affects government dollars (which are taxpayer dollars). <\/p>\n

Home with a bug today, I was able to watch the debate on C-Span. The bill passed the House by a vote of 331-94, with 8 members not voting. Let’s hope the Senate also acts responsibly by approving the bill.<\/p>\n

Rep. Braley was inspiring in his remarks about the courage and contributions of important whistleblowers such as former FBI Agent Colleen M. Rowley, whose comments in speaking out after 9\/11 are worth remembering and repeating below:<\/p>\n

* * * * * * * * * * * *
\n Continue reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were excited to see that the U.S. House of Representatives today passed an important new whistleblower protection law, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. We have discussed this new whistleblower bill previously, as an encouraging development for whistleblowers and whistleblower lawyers. The new whistleblower law would protect federal employees and, now, also federal contractors, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-developments"],"yoast_head":"\nNew "Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act" Passes U.S. House — Whistleblower Lawyer Blog — March 14, 2007<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We were excited to see that the U.S. House of Representatives today passed an important new whistleblower protection law, the Whistleblower Protection — March 14, 2007\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/new_whistleblower_protection_e\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"New "Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act" Passes U.S. House — Whistleblower Lawyer Blog — March 14, 2007\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"We were excited to see that the U.S. House of Representatives today passed an important new whistleblower protection law, the Whistleblower Protection — March 14, 2007\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael Sullivan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"23 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"New \"Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act\" Passes U.S. House — Whistleblower Lawyer Blog — March 14, 2007","description":"We were excited to see that the U.S. House of Representatives today passed an important new whistleblower protection law, the Whistleblower Protection — March 14, 2007","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/new_whistleblower_protection_e\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"New \"Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act\" Passes U.S. House — Whistleblower Lawyer Blog — March 14, 2007","twitter_description":"We were excited to see that the U.S. House of Representatives today passed an important new whistleblower protection law, the Whistleblower Protection — March 14, 2007","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Michael Sullivan","Est. reading time":"23 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/new_whistleblower_protection_e\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/new_whistleblower_protection_e\/"},"author":{"name":"Michael Sullivan","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/06cb979e5d74ec7f83f73b757da4331f"},"headline":"New “Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act” Passes U.S. House","datePublished":"2007-03-14T16:52:45+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-11T21:56:27+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/new_whistleblower_protection_e\/"},"wordCount":4705,"articleSection":["Recent Developments"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/new_whistleblower_protection_e\/","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/new_whistleblower_protection_e\/","name":"New \"Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act\" Passes U.S. House — Whistleblower Lawyer Blog — March 14, 2007","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-03-14T16:52:45+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-11T21:56:27+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/06cb979e5d74ec7f83f73b757da4331f"},"description":"We were excited to see that the U.S. House of Representatives today passed an important new whistleblower protection law, the Whistleblower Protection — March 14, 2007","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/new_whistleblower_protection_e\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/new_whistleblower_protection_e\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/new_whistleblower_protection_e\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"New “Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act” Passes U.S. House"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/","name":"Whistleblower Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Whistleblower Attorneys \u2014 Finch McCranie, LLP","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/#\/schema\/person\/06cb979e5d74ec7f83f73b757da4331f","name":"Michael Sullivan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c20f28ef8779909ce4423e28badc00a489c680349138c20442a37fb45a0e8cf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c20f28ef8779909ce4423e28badc00a489c680349138c20442a37fb45a0e8cf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1c20f28ef8779909ce4423e28badc00a489c680349138c20442a37fb45a0e8cf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Michael Sullivan"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/michael-a-sullivan.html"]}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/whistleblower-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}