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.
Notes on verification
Multiple independent sources (Government Accountability Project, Nature Medicine, SEJ, Change.org campaign) corroborate the anonymous hold killing the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act in December 2010. The senator's identity was never publicly confirmed, but the mechanism and outcome are well documented. [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.sej.org/publications/government/help-identify-senator-whose-secret-hold-killed-whistleblower-bill (corroboration)
- https://whistleblower.org/general/whistleblowers/blow-the-whistle-identifying-the-u-s-senator-who-killed-whistleblower-protection/ (corroboration)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0311-234a (corroboration)
- https://www.change.org/p/identify-the-senator-that-placed-a-secret-hold-on-whistleblower-protection (corroboration)