September 18, 2012

By Suzie Dershowitz

The Project On Government Oversight applauds Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Todd Platts (R-Pa.) for introducing the bipartisan Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Act (H.R. 6406), an important bill that could save billions of taxpayer dollars. POGO has always supported granting strong whistleblower protections to all federal contractors and grant recipients of federal funds, and this bill would do just that. In April, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed Sen. Claire McCaskill’s (D-Mo.) companion legislation S.241, cosponsored by Senators Jim Webb (D-Va.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and we are glad to see House members following McCaskill’s lead.