Protecting Whistleblowers and Promoting Accountability: Is VA Making Progress?


Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

Date: 05.19.21

Location: Fully Virtual

Presiding: Chair Chris Pappas

The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing entitled “Protecting Whistleblowers and Promoting Accountability: Is VA Making Progress?”

This meeting will be livestreamed on Youtube and Facebook and you can find all hearing documents on the Committee Repository here.

Witness List 

 

Panel 1 

 

Mr. Hansel Cordeiro 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Accountability and Whistleblower Protection 

Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection 

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 

 

Mr. Christopher Wilber 

Counsel to the Inspector General 

Office of Inspector General 

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 

 

Ms. Elizabeth McMurray 

Chief of Retaliation and Disclosure Unit 

U.S. Office of Special Counsel  

 

Panel 2 

 

Ms. Melissa Wasser 

Policy Counsel 

Project on Government Oversight 

 

Mr. Tom Devine 

Legal Director 

Government Accountability Project 

 

Ms. Jacqueline Garrick 

Founder 

Whistleblowers of America