WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today delivered remarks commending whistleblowers’ role as our nation’s greatest fraud fighters. Grassley, a co-founder and co-chair of the Senate Whistleblower Protection Caucus, additionally introduced a Senate resolution recognizing July 30, 2024, as “National Whistleblower Appreciation Day.”

Congress enacted our nation’s first whistleblower protections on this day 246 years ago. Grassley, due to his dogged efforts to protect and strengthen those protections, has earned the moniker of “Patron Saint of Whistleblowers.” Notably, his False Claims Amendment Act has recouped over $75 billion in taxpayer dollars that had been lost to waste, fraud and abuse. A transcript of Grassley’s remarks is below.

“Whistleblower Appreciation Day”

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

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It’s an honor to be with you today.

I don’t think I miss very many of these Whistleblower Days.

Today is Whistleblower Day.

If you want to know why that’s July 30, it’s because before there was a Congress of the United States, there was a Continental Congress. [And] on this day in 1778, the Continental Congress passed legislation protecting what was then known as whistleblowers at that time.

We ought to take this day to say that every day ought to be Whistleblower Appreciation Day.

I’ve asked every president since Ronald Reagan to have a Rose Garden ceremony honoring whistleblowers.

I want the people at the top of the government [in] the executive branch, all the way down to...

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