Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Lynch). I thank the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar). I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Duffy) for his leadership and collaboration on this important bill that he and I have introduced and is on the floor today, the Follow the Rules Act, H.R. 6186. I appreciate Representative Duffy's efforts to work to advance this legislation that falls under the umbrella of good government, which the Oversight and Government Reform Committee usually strives to promote on a bipartisan basis. I welcome consideration of the bill, the Follow the Rules Act, to extend Congress' commitment to whistleblowers. The Follow the Rules Act upholds the committee's obligation to protect whistleblowers and help identify mismanagement at Federal agencies in supporting the oversight work of Congress. The bill's language was previously adopted by a voice vote as section 1206 of the House-passed Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act of 2017, H.R. 5482. The bill closes a loophole in the Whistleblower Protection Act created falsely, in my view, by the ruling in Rainey v. Merit Systems Protection Board, a precedent-setting case decided on June 7 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.…”