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Pelosi Statement on Whistleblower Protections Added to American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Published in Health Business Week, February 13th, 2009

Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after permanent protections for federal 'whistleblowers' were added to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, to strengthen its unprecedented accountability measures, and to continue to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending for years to come. This bipartisan amendment, sponsored by Congressmen Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Todd Platts (R-PA), was passed by the House in the last Congress but never became law.

"We have worked for years to protect taxpayer dollars and improve services the federal government provides by protecting those most familiar with how the dollars are spent and the results...

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