Help Identify the Senator Who Placed a Secret Hold on the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act

WNYC's On the Media and our partners at the Government Accountability Project (GAP) are spearheading an effort to identify the senator who torpedoed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) with a secret hold.

As you may recall, the WPEA—the product of a twelve-year effort to secure credible protections for federal whistleblowers—failed to reach the president's desk despite being passed unanimously in both chambers of Congress within a two-week period.

So what happened? After the House passed a watered-down version of the bill that had been passed unanimously in the Senate earlier in December, one senator placed a secret hold on the bill and promptly skipped town as the sun set on the 111th Congress.

POGO and others have called for the anonymous senator to come forward and own up to the hold. Now you can help flush the culprit out of the shadows by going here and asking your senators whether the hold was their doing. So far, 25 senators have been contacted. Seven have denied placing the hold.

-- Bryan Rahija

See also:

• How a Red Herring about WikiLeaks Killed Whistleblower Protections
• WikiLeaks Misconceptions Derail Progress, Threaten Reform.
• 96 Groups Tell the House S. 372 Is a Good Deal for Whistleblowers and Taxpayers
• S. 372 Fact Sheet
• POGO Hails Senate for Unanimous Passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, Urges House to Act Quickly

Comments

[Daniel Haszard]

Solidarity for Whistle-blowers
Glaxo whistle-blower gets $96 million.
The case with the Zyprexa scandal is that Eli Lilly drug company pleaded guilty to criminal wrongs ("viva Zyprexa" campaign) the Zyprexa saga was rotten through and through.
Eight Lilly EMPLOYEES got millions each as supposed informant 'whistle blowers'.Lawyers on BOTH sides got millions and millions......most patient claimants who got sick are 'mentally challenged' and less able to advocate for themselves.
The Class action Lawsuits in the US had payouts of $85,000 BUT the lawyers got 45 percent and then the govt got most of the rest for having to take care of the victim/patients medical expenses.Soooo,,,,$85K turned into about $9,000 for Zyprexa claimants many had their food stamps and other state benefits taken away because of their *windfall profit* making them worse off in the end.
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Daniel Haszard Zyprexa victim activist whistleblower and patient. http://www.zyprexa-victims.com