Senate Backs Extension of Pilot Program Expanding Whistleblowers' Court Options

The Senate on Thursday voted unanimously and without debate to extend the rights of would-be federal whistleblowers to appeal Merit Systems Protection Board rulings to an array of courts. All Circuit Review Extension Act , which sped through the House in July, would extend for three years a pilot plan in the 2012 Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act that allows federal employees access to appeals courts other than just the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.



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