Uniformed Military Service Whistleblowing
The Law:
10 U.S.C. § 1034: Protected communications; prohibition of retaliatiatory personnel actions against a member of the armed forces (Military Whistleblower Protection Act)
38 U.S.C. § 4311(b): Discrimination protections against persons who serve in the uniformed services and acts of reprisal prohibited (Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994)
Committee(s) of Jurisdiction:
House Armed Services Committee
Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:
- Ammunition depots; forts; arsenals; and Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force reservations and establishments
- Common defense generally
- Conservation, development, and use of naval petroleum and oil shale reserves
- The Department of Defense generally, including the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, generally
- Interoceanic canals generally, including measures relating to the maintenance, operation, and administration of interoceanic canals
- Merchant Marine Academy and State Maritime Academies
- Military applications of nuclear energy
- Tactical intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the Department of Defense
- National security aspects of merchant marine, including financial assistance for the construction and operation of vessels, maintenance of the U.S. shipbuilding and ship repair industrial base, cabotage, cargo preference, and merchant marine officers and seafarers as these matters relate to the national security
- Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits and privileges of members of the armed forces
- Scientific research and development in support of the armed services
- Selective service
- Size and composition of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force
- Soldiers’ and sailors’ homes
- Strategic and critical materials necessary for the common defense
- Cemeteries administered by the Department of Defense
Majority Website
Minority Website
House Committee on Veterans Affairs
Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:
- Veterans’ measures generally
- Cemeteries of the United States in which veterans of any war or conflict are or may be buried, whether in the United States or abroad (except cemeteries administered by the Secretary of the Interior)
- Compensation, vocational rehabilitation, and education of veterans
- Life insurance issued by the Government on account of service in the Armed Forces
- Pensions of all the wars of the United States, general and special
- Readjustment of servicemembers to civil life
- Servicemembers’ civil relief
- Veterans’ hospitals, medical care, and treatment of veterans
Majority Website
Minority Website
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:
- Federal civil service, including intergovernmental personnel; and the status of officers and employees of the United States, including their compensation, classification, and retirement
- Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia in general (other than appropriations)
- Federal paperwork reduction
- Government management and accounting measures generally
- Holidays and celebrations
- Overall economy, efficiency, and management of government operations and activities, including Federal procurement
- National archives
- Population and demography generally, including the Census
- Postal service generally, including transportation of the mails
- Public information and records
- Relationship of the Federal Government to the States and municipalities generally
- Reorganizations in the executive branch of the Government
Majority Website
Minority Website