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Washington, D.C. – July 4, 2006. In testimony submitted before the House Committee on Government Reform, the Chair of the National Whistleblowers Center, Stephen M. Kohn, proposed new legislation which would create the first comprehensive national whistleblower protection law. The legislation, the Protecting Honest Amercans on the Job Act of 2006 was proposed in order to promptly […]

une 16, 2006, By MARGARET EBRAHIM and PAT MILTON, Associated Press Writers As firefighters searched for survivors after the Sept. 11 attacks, heat from the World Trade Center’s smoldering ruins burned the soles off their boots. They needed new ones every few hours, and Chris Christopherson made sure they got them. The disaster specialist was […]

Washington, DC, June 15, 2006. Today the heads of two whistleblower advocate groups sent a letter urging the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs to close a loophole in pending legislation, the Federal Employee Protection of Disclosure Act. In the letter, the Chairman of the National Whistleblowers Center, Stephen M. Kohn and the […]

Panel Orders Whistleblower Reinstated Adam Geller AP, June 13, 2006

Washington, D.C., June 3, 2006 – Stephen M. Kohn, Chairman of the National Whistleblowers Center, appeared on CSPAN’s Washington Journal to discuss the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Garcetti v. Ceballos.