[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3821]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1740. Mrs. McCASKILL submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 
1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       On page 564, after line 25, add the following:
       (d) Report.--
       (1) Definition.--In this subsection, the term ``covered 
     employee'' has the meaning given that term in section 1599e 
     of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection 
     (a)(1).
       (2) Contents.--The Secretary of Defense shall submit to 
     Congress a report regarding covered employees hired into a 
     probationary status during the 10-year period ending on the 
     date of enactment of this Act, which shall include the number 
     of covered employees--
       (A) hired during the period;
       (B) whose appointment became final after the probationary 
     period;
       (C) who were subject to disciplinary action or termination 
     during the 5-year period beginning on the date on which the 
     appointment of the covered employee became final;
       (D) who were subject to disciplinary action during the 
     probationary period;
       (E) who were terminated before the appointment of the 
     covered employee became final; and
       (F) who, after being subject to disciplinary action or 
     terminated, raised a claim that the disciplinary action or 
     termination was taken because of a disclosure of information 
     by the covered employee that the covered employee reasonably 
     believed evidenced--
       (i) any violation of any law, rule, or regulation; or
       (ii) gross mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse 
     of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to public 
     health or safety.
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