House Proceeding 03-18-09 on Mar 18th, 2009 :: 1:29:45 to 1:31:40
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Bruce Braley: and we've seen the utmost of greed. i think mr. braley was something that will take mr. braley: would my friend yield for a follow-up comment? a point you raised, it's an important economyment to the

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Speech By: Bruce Braley

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Bruce Braley: regulation -- compliment and that's the whistle blower protection. one thing mr. yarmuth and i had a key role in was passing out of our oversight committee the whistle blower protection enhancement bill of 2007 and it was an enormously overwhelming bipartisan bill. it passed on the floor of this house with over 330 votes, w

1:30:24 to 1:30:44( Edit History Discussion )

Bruce Braley: naming a post office, that's doing pretty good down here. unfortunately it ran into obstacles inhe senate and did not get to the president's desk in the 110th congress. and then someone, well, it was congressman chris van hollen who is a democrat and congressman todd platts from pennsylvania who is a republican had the brilliant

1:30:45 to 1:31:06( Edit History Discussion )

Bruce Braley: idea when we were putting together some of this financial recovery legislation in the stimulus bill, let's put the whistle blower bill back in. we're putting a lot of money out there into the economy. we want to provide protection to federal employees, to report instances of waste, fraud and abuse and it passed ov to the senate and one senator

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Bruce Braley: decided that that was not appropriate and it came out of the bill. and i think the american taxpayers are fed up with the lack of accountability. they want people to be protected. when they have the courage to put their lives and their careers on the line and stand up for the american taxpayers. and that's why we had a press conference last week to re-introduce the bill as a

1:31:28 to 1:31:41( Edit History Discussion )

Bruce Braley: stand-alone bill. i hope we quickly get it over to the senate and i hope this time the senate understands that the american people are outraged. they want us to be on their side to protect their hard-earned dollars and i think