When the amended whistleblower protection bill returned to the Senate for a final vote, a single senator placed an anonymous hold on it, effectively killing the legislation.
Sources
- Which Senator Secretly Sabotaged the Popular Whistleblower ... (propublica.org)
- https://www.sej.org/publications/government/help-identify-senator-whose-secret-hold-killed-whistleblower-bill (sej.org)
- https://whistleblower.org/general/whistleblowers/blow-the-whistle-identifying-the-u-s-senator-who-killed-whistleblower-protection/ (whistleblower.org)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0311-234a (nature.com)
- https://www.change.org/p/identify-the-senator-that-placed-a-secret-hold-on-whistleblower-protection (change.org)
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