I think the most effective thing that happened in the run-up to the summit was the administration at all levels communic...
the touchstone quality that makes any organization successful is accountability.
I think every member of this Committee has become more upset as we hear this.
Let me assure everybody, Senator Ernst, all the witnesses, everybody in the audience, there is a process to solving a pr...
We need a permanent Inspector General so we have a transparent and independent Office of Inspector General.
As we make it easier for the VA to hold people accountable, that we also do not make it easier for the VA to terminate t...
If we cannot hold individuals in the VA health care system and, quite honestly, any manager within the Federal Governmen...
It is almost epidemic proportions.
Without proper oversight from our representative in Congress, it makes it even more difficult for us whistleblowers in P...
This is not just talk. This will result in action.
Why is retaliation so rampant within the Federal Government?
it is enormously difficult apparently for department heads, Secretaries, top-level management to hold those people that ...
the whistleblowers in Puerto Rico's facility really need the help from this Committee to ensure that whistleblower retal...
Those people ought to be rewarded, not retaliated against.
Four thousand. That would be the retaliation complaints.
I want to state for the record a conversation that we have had in delegation conference calls as well as private meeting...
It seems to me one of the more simple things that we can address in all of this.
the role of whistleblowers is critical--in fact, heroic--in running an effective organization.
