GAP Testifies at U.S. House Hearing for Government Whistleblowers

[Guest guest]

GAP Testifies at U.S. House Hearing for Government Whistleblowers

GAP recently testified at a U.S. House of Representatives Government

Oversight and Reform Committee hearing, calling for quick action on the 2009

Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, long-overdue legislation that would

provide federal workers who are retaliated again the right to jury trials

when they are harassed for blowing the whistle on fraud, waste and abuse.

GAP Legal Director Tom Devine testified that supporting jury trials is a “

credibility litmus test for the President’s transparency commitments,

including his campaign and transition pledges that they will receive full

access

to court.â€

GAP’s testimony also emphasized that the reform “is essential as the

integrity foundation for unprecedented spending, and for a commitment that

America no longer will abuse human rights at home or abroad. It must be enacted

before stimulus spending gets fully underway, to keep it honest.â€

(http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker & cmd=track & j=2800\

13867

& u=3059876)

_Click here to read the full press release_

(http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker & cmd=track & j=2800\

13867 & u=3059877)

_http://whistleblower.org/doc/2008/TownsHearing09.pdf_

(http://whistleblower.org/doc/2008/TownsHearing09.pdf)

(http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker & cmd=track & j=2800\

13867 & u=3059878)

_Click here to read the testimony of GAP Legal Director Tom Devine_

(http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker & cmd=track & j=2800\

138

67 & u=3059879)

_http://whistleblower.org/doc/2008/DevineTowns09.pdf_

(http://whistleblower.org/doc/2008/DevineTowns09.pdf)

Sharon Noonan Kramer