WHISTLEBLOWING

Articles and editorials

Contractor Admits Bribing a U.S. Official in Iraq—Lawyer Uses Civil War-Era Law To Go After Firms for Corruption, but Adminstration Won't Help, S6111 [20JN]

Plea Deal Shows How Businessman Rigged Bids for Rebuilding Hillah; `Considered It a Free-Fraud Zone', S6111 [20JN]

Bills and resolutions

Protections: improve (see H.R. 4925), H867 [9MR]

Taxation: exclude from gross income amounts awarded to qui tam plaintiffs (see H.R. 4887), H644 [7MR]

Papers

Personnel Action Relative to Bunnatine H. Greenhouse: Dept. of Defense, S5857 [14JN]

Remarks in House

Congress: reform intelligence community oversight, H362 [16FE]

Dept. of Justice: limit the maximum review period for whistleblower lawsuits brought under the False Claims Act against Federal contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, H4770, H4771 [28JN]

Federal employees: clarify disclosures of information protected from prohibited personnel practices and require a statement of nondisclosure policies (H.R. 1317), H4888 [29JN]

NASA: submit plan to protect whistleblowers who expose potentially catastrophic risks to health or safety, H4665 [27JN]

Remarks in Senate

Committee on War and Reconstruction Contracting (Senate, Special): establish, S5990-S5995 [16JN], S6108-S6110 [20JN]

Dept. of Justice: limit the maximum review period for whistleblower lawsuits brought under the False Claims Act against Federal contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, S3889 [2MY], S6110-S6113 [20JN]

Reports filed

Federal Employee Protection of Disclosures Act: Committee on Government Reform (House) (H.R. 1317) (H. Rept. 109-544), H4957 [10JY]