The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) passed the House of Representatives with overwhelming bipartisan support. If it passes into law, it would -
 Ban political appointees from interfering with the work of federal climate scientists,
 Extend whistleblower protections to FBI employees and government contractors, and
 Provide specific authority for whistleblowers to disclose classified information to members of Congress.
To become law – and fulfill our six year campaign for this reform - it must pass the Senate in the strongest form possible and overcome a threatened veto from the White House.
We know we can do it. We’ve had historic victories before. Thanks to your support, GAP has recently celebrated 30 years of fighting for the protection of courageous individuals who speak out from within government and corporations to warn the public of abuses of power that could threaten our safety or reveal corruption and illegal activities.
Here are some examples of what your support has enabled us to achieve in our main program areas by representing or advising over 4000 whistleblowers since 1977:
 Food and Drug Safety – exposing dangerous drugs - like Vioxx, Ketek, Avandia and Proheart 6 - that were allowed to remain on the market for way too long because of cozy relationships between the FDA and drug companies and the attempted gagging of FDA staff who wanted to speak out.
 International - releasing the documents from whistleblowers revealing that Paul Wolfowitz, the World Bank President, had ordered outrageous unauthorized pay raises for his girlfriend, Shaha Riza – leading directly to his resignation.
 Environmental – exposing the extensive White House editing of the world’s leading climate change scientists and challenging the restrictive media policies that attempted to prevent them from telling us of the dire threat posed by climate change.
 Nuclear Oversight – exposing unsafe working conditions, dangerous lapses in quality control and serious threats to public health and the environment at sites such as the Hanford nuclear waste processing facility in the state of Washington and the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
 Corporate Accountability – revealing that a major pharmaceutical company flouted standards of good manufacturing practice for a newly developed infant vaccine given to every newborn child in the U.S. and uncovering obstruction by management of the Securities and Exchange Commission of investigations of insider trading at hedge funds.
 Federal Employee/National Security – defending Federal Air Marshals in fighting against a bureaucratic insistence on dress-codes and other bureaucratic rules that compromise their ability to protect the public in the wake of 9/11.
