House bill · 117th Congress · Did not become law
Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act of 2021
Sponsor: Rep. Carolyn Maloney D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 4, 2021
- Committee actionJun 29, 2021
- Passed HouseSep 15, 2022 · 221–203
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 19, 2022 — Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2988.
- CBO cost estimateThe Congressional Budget Office published “H.R. 2988, Whistleblower Protection Improvement Act of 2021” on April 27, 2022. CBO’s description reads “As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on June 29, 2021”.Read the CBO estimate ↗Source: Congressional Budget Office, April 27, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- cboCostEstimates
- CBO publication
- https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58048
- CBO publication date
- April 27, 2022
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2988, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2988
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 28, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 117-334 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on May 18, 2022.Source: Congress.gov, reported May 18, 2022 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/117/HRPT/334
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2988, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2988
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 28, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 167, No. 77, May 4, 2021, Page H2142):Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution of the United States grants the Congress the power to enact this law.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 4, 2021 ↗
Evidence
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- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 121 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2988, 117th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/hr/2988
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- May 28, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 16, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
4bf788c10d36feb19f8241b6cc2a4daf57b0b6d2c9025fa118920be50ee32d32
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
29 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 28 Democrats
1 of 29 cosponsors (3%) are from the other party.
Cori Bush (D-MO), Ed Case (D-HI), Gerald Connolly (D-VA), James Cooper (D-TN), Danny Davis (D-IL), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Eddie Johnson (D-TX), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Grace Meng (D-NY), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Katie Porter (D-CA), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Kathleen Rice (D-NY), John Sarbanes (D-MD), Jackie Speier (D-CA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Peter Welch (D-VT).
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 16, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.