FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 17, 2022 Over 100 Civil Society Organizations Urge Senate to Vote on Pending MSPB Nominations WASHINGTON – This week, 104 organizations released a letter to Senate Majority Leader Schumer and Minority Leader McConnell to urge them to allow the full Senate to vote on pending nominations to all three vacancies on [...]
The Honorable Charles Schumer Majority Leader United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Mitch McConnell Minority Leader United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 February 15, 2022 Dear Leader Schumer and Leader McConnell: The undersigned civil society organizations urge you to allow the full Senate to consider and vote on pending nominations to all [...]
Advocates urge Senate to vote on nominees for board reviewing whistleblower claims This article features Government Accountability Project’s Legal Director, Tom Devine, and was originally published here. Good governance groups are urging Senate leaders of both parties to revive the now-defunct board that reviews whistleblower claims by filling vacancies that have left it without [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 1, 2021 Advocacy Organizations Urge Senate to Vote on Pending MSPB Nominations WASHINGTON – As trillions of dollars flow into the economy to fund COVID-19 recovery and domestic priorities such as infrastructure spending, it’s more important than ever that those witnessing waste, fraud, or abuse in our government are protected [...]
After years of historic absences, Biden’s MSPB nominees face their first test This article features Government Accountability Project and was originally published here. Federal employees, whistleblowers and advocacy groups have anxiously awaited the restoration of a quorum at the Merit Systems Protection Board, viewing President Biden’s three nominees as perhaps their best shot in [...]
Government Accountability Project Congratulates Department of Defense Whistleblower on Victory Government Accountability Project congratulates Jacqueline Garrick, founder of Whistleblowers of America (WoA), on her recent victory at the MSPB following a years-long battle after blowing the whistle on attempted contracting fraud and tragic mission breakdowns at the Department of Defense’s Defense Suicide Prevention Office [...]
Note: this article, featuring Government Accountability Project and our Deputy Director of Legislation Irvin McCullough, was originally published here. Whistleblower Groups Urge Congressional Action on MSPB Nominees Whistleblower advocacy groups are urging congressional action on the Merit Systems Protection Board, which has lacked a quorum for more than three years now. The Project on Government [...]
For Immediate Release: 2/26/2020 Whistleblowing Community Blasts Merit Systems Vacancies Make It Safe Coalition Calls for Reforms to Whistleblowing Laws WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the members of the Steering Committee of the trans-ideological, bi-partisan whistleblower support coalition, the Make It Safe Campaign, sent a letter calling on congressional leadership to revive crippled Whistleblower Protection Act rights. The [...]