Protecting Those Who Blow the Whistle on Government Wrongdoing
Date:
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 2:00pm
Location:
2154 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
“Protecting Those Who Blow the Whistle on Government Wrongdoing”
Subcommittees:
CHAIRMAN CONNOLLY'S OPENING STATEMENT
CHAIRWOMAN MALONEY'S OPENING STATEMENT
BACKGROUND
- Whistleblower disclosures promote an effective and efficient civil service and benefit the public interest by “assisting in the elimination of fraud, waste, abuse, and unnecessary Government expenditures.”
- Whistleblowers play a critical role in the government, promoting government accountability and reform while curtailing abuses.
- Numerous laws provide whistleblowers in the public and private sectors with important protections, including more than one-hundred federal laws that include either a whistleblower-related or retaliation-prohibition provision. Among them are two key laws, the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (WPA) and the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA), which specifically protect whistleblowers who are federal employees. Additional legislation has extended whistleblower protections to federal contractors and grantees.
WITNESSES
David K. Colapinto
Founder and General Counsel
National Whistleblower Center
The Honorable Glenn A. Fine
Principal Deputy Inspector General
Department of Defense
Elizabeth Hempowicz
Director of Public Policy
Project on Governemnt Oversight
The Honorable Michael E. Horowitz
Inspector General
U.S. Department of Justice
Paul Rosenzweig
Resident Senior Fellow
National Security and Cybersecurity, R Street Institute
Documents
- NOTICE
- Notice - 2020 date change
- Memo
- Attendance
- Statement for the Record - Kel McClanahan, Executive Director, National Security Counselors
- QFR’s from Rep. Connolly to Mr. Rosenzweig at National Security and Cybersecurity R Street
- QFR’s from Rep. Connolly to Mr. Horowitz at the U.S. Department of Justice
- QFR’s from Rep. Connolly to Ms. Hempowicz at Project on Government Oversight
- QFR’s from Rep. Connolly to Mr. Fine at the U.S. Department of Defense
- QFR’s from Rep. Connolly to Mr. Colapinto at the National Whistleblower Center
- QFR responses from Mr. Colapinto at the National Whistleblower Center to Rep. Connolly
- QFR responses from Mr. Fine at the U.S. Department of Defense to Rep. Connolly
- QFR responses from Ms. Hempowicz at Project on Government Oversight to Rep. Connolly
- QFR responses from Mr. Rosenzweig at National Security and Cybersecurity R Street to Rep. Connolly
- Rep. Connolly for the record Tom Devine written testimony
- Rep. Hice for the record article from the Washington Post
- Rep. Sarbanes for the record letter to the assistant attorney general Steven Engel
- Rep. Speier for the record an open letter to the American people signed by former inspector generals
- Letter from the National Whistleblower Center to Rep. Connolly
- Hearing Transcript
Issues:
116th Congress