It is not sending a very good message to them that we are serious about whistleblower protection if we give them second-...
Ms. Brian, under the WPA, agencies are required to inform their employees of their whistleblower rights.
I think the important change that we are seeing is this is the first Administration that I think is, first of all, not t...
The public is enfranchised to make decisions about government actions that have an impact on them.
I understand that the Administration is committed to transparency, but we must ensure that this Board makes fair decisio...
I should also add that many of them have some good ideas that can improve government operations.
This issue is a priority for me, and I am optimistic that finally we will enact protections for whistleblowers this year...
They do not at the Merit Systems Protection Board right now.
I want to thank Senator Collins, the lead Republican cosponsor of S. 372, and Members of the Homeland Security and Gover...
Enactment of the Akaka bill would undo 20 years of careful diplomatic protection of property rights of American citizens...
Creation of a hereditary aristocracy with a special legal and political relationship with the United States is forbidden...
That is why concerns which are premised on the manner in which Federal Indian law provides for the respective government...
Because the Native Hawaiian government is not an Indian tribe, the body of Federal Indian law that would otherwise custo...
Aloha is for everyone but the Akaka bill isn't. Please consider the dangers of this bill which would sponsor a separate ...
The Native Hawaiian people are an indigenous people this is not race-based legislation.
We must ensure that the voices of Native Hawaiians are heard in Congress.
This bill sets up a process whereby the United States can recognize a constituted Native Hawaiian governing entity.
All of those kinds of issues, anything that would allow Native Hawaiians to not pay state taxes would have to be agreed ...