An earlier version of the whistleblower protection bill passed the U.S. Senate unanimously before being amended in the House.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by Congress.gov official legislative record showing unanimous consent passage in the Senate, corroborated by contemporaneous Lawfare reporting, SEJ, and Government Accountability Project accounts of the subsequent House amendments and eventual death via anonymous Senate hold. [tier=gold indep_score=0.838 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Which Senator Secretly Sabotaged the Popular Whistleblower ... (seed:politics_and_current_events)
- https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/372/all-info (corroboration)
- https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/whistleblower-protection-bill-passes-senate (corroboration)
- https://www.sej.org/publications/government/help-identify-senator-whose-secret-hold-killed-whistleblower-bill (corroboration)
- https://sgp.fas.org/congress/2010/wpea.html (corroboration)