TAKE ACTION! Tell Congress that PHS employees must have the same protections against retaliation as their colleagues who work at HHS/FDA!
The House-Senate Conference debating the FDA Reform Act (S.3187 / H.R. 5651) will decide the fate of PHS whistleblowers over the next 24-48 hours. Your immediate support for PHS whistleblowers is needed RIGHT NOW.
Congress is deciding whether an outrageous loophole in federal law that permits government bureaucrats to fire PHS employee who blow the whistle, will be closed. Currently, there is no protection for PHS whistleblowers. If they report the waste of taxpayer money or "bad science" being used to justify major public health decisions, they can be fired with no recourse!
This weekend whistleblower advocates, with strong support among many Members of Congress, proposed a legislative fix for this unjustifiable and dangerous loophole. The fix would simply provide PHS employees with the same protection all other workers at HHS/FDA have. It gives them the right to lawfully blow the whistle, have an independent investigation conducted by the Office of Special Counsel into any retaliation, and a hearing on the merits of their case. Simple due process.
TAKE ACTION! Tell Congress to protect PHS whistleblowers!
However, there is strong resistance in the conference to approving this essential fix. The key decision maker is Congressman Fred Upton (R MI-6), Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Please email your Senator and Congressman to request that they contact Representative Upton to obtain his pledge in support of protecting PHS whistleblowers when he votes in the House-Senate conference.
Please call Representative Upton and ask him to ensure that PHS whistleblowers have the same rights as other HHS and FDA employees with whom they work side-by-side. His number is: (202) 225-2927
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Wow! Like this even issue even needs to be raised? Rather, this is a prime example of the status quo elites and their institutions protecting their flanks. I'm ready for their robes to be ripped off completely, revealing their perplish, pimply, puckered flesh in all its hideous nakedness. Yuck! Pimply, purple perps puckering...
ReplyDeleteReally? -- We the People have to ask if we can have "permission" to point out criminality? And they propose we ask the gatekeeper Cons of Congress? Senators and other yuckymen and lookielosers? What a set-up.
We already know big pharma runs and rules the fda. No use in contacting your "representative" since they don't represent us they represent big pharma.
ReplyDeleteOnly people with torches and pitchforks by the millions at their gates will stop them from getting what they want.
Torches...pitchforks...at their gates...
ReplyDeletePicturesque for an "old flic" but not appros for the present JG.
Picture something else far more effective, far more deadly, far more SCARY and TERROR-FILLED to show up at THEIR gates...
I shall not embellish, nor prescribe. WE the People possess the true power, the true rage of the junk yard dog, the sheer umbrage and righteous indignation to right this wronged nation!
Let the wretches kvetch and their innards twist as they await their just karmic dues. From every quarter, from the land, the sky, the hills, the valleys, the sea, and the aether shall come their comeuppance and it shall come without warning and without mercy in due course as they have shown none.
Consider "The Willing"..., and "The Waiting" who "Wist Not"...