On the recordJuly 21, 2015
As the author of the Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Act, I would like to thank Chairman Chaffetz and his staff for working with me in drafting this bipartisan legislation. I also appreciate the chairman's support for this bill during the committee's consideration this past March. I thank Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton for cosponsoring the bill. As a former Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, her expertise in employment law is unparalleled in Congress. I also appreciate the support of Representatives James Sensenbrenner and Sheila Jackson Lee, who cosponsored the bill. I especially want to thank Tanya Ward Jordan, Paulette Taylor, and all the members of the Coalition 4 Change, also known as C4C, for their invaluable assistance on this legislation. I am also grateful that this bill has strong support of the Make It Safe Coalition. Both C4C and the Make It Safe Coalition are dedicated to ending discrimination and retaliation against whistleblowers in the Federal workplace, and I applaud their leadership and their hard work. The Federal EEO programs are critical to ensuring that Federal workplaces are free from discrimination and that any barriers impeding fairness in personnel decisions are identified and eliminated. These programs exist to ensure that our Federal workplaces uphold the guarantee of equal opportunity. That is the right of every citizen in this great country.…
