House Proceeding 01-28-09 on Jan 28th, 2009 :: 2:21:10 to 2:22:30
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Chris Van Hollen: with the enactment of this amendment, the court administrates decisions that undermine whistleblower protections would be overturned this amendment replaces the proof standard with the reasonable belief standard, grants jury trial in federal court if the head of an agency does not take action and ends the

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Speech By: Chris Van Hollen

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Chris Van Hollen: monopoly jurisdiction. given the amount of money involved in the underlying legislation, federal whistleblower protections will be that much more important to protect overseat site and accountable. i urge adoption of this amendment and reserv balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from maryland. >> thank you, mr. speaker.

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Chris Van Hollen: i'd like to commend mr. platts, mr. waxman, mr. mr. van hollen: thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to thank mr. platts, mr. tierney support on this issue. this economic recovery package contains about 50 billion in public funds to support important national priorities. we need to make sure these funds are effectively spent and

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Chris Van Hollen: they're not lost through any waste, fraud and abuse. the underlying bill provides protection for whistleblowers at the state and local level. what is this amendment does is to make sure that our federal employees also have whistleblower protections so if they see waste, fraud or abuse they can report it without fear of retaliation or harm and as mr. platts has said, what we're doing is simply

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Chris Van Hollen: putting the whistleblower protection a that passed this body by a vote of 331-94 into this bill to make sure that these public funds are safeguarded and that we ensure accountability in the process.