; (7) under the First Amendment to the Constitution, citizens of the United States have the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances ; and (8) Congress has further protected those rights under section 7211 of title 5, United States Code, which states, the right of employees, individually or collectively, to petition Congress or a member of Congress . . . may not be interfered with or denied . 3. Amendment to America COMPETES Act Section 1009 of the America COMPETES Act ( 42 U.S.C. 6620 ) is amended by striking subsections (a) and (b) and inserting the following: (a) Scientific integrity policies (1) In general Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of the Scientific Integrity Act, the head of each covered agency shall— (A) adopt and enforce a scientific integrity policy in accordance with subsections (b) and (c); and (B) submit such policy to the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy for approval. (2) Publication Not later than 30 days after the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy approves the scientific integrity policy under paragraph (1), the head of each covered agency shall— (A) make such policy available to the public on the website of the agency; and (B) submit such policy to the relevant Committees of Congress. (b) Requirements A scientific integrity policy under subsection (a)— (1) shall prohibit any covered individual from— (A) engaging in dishonesty, fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, coercive manipulation, or other scientific or research misconduct; (B) suppressing, altering, interfering with, delaying without scientific merit, or otherwise impeding the release and communication of, scientific or technical findings; (C) intimidating or coercing an individual to alter or censor, attempting to intimidate or coerce an individual to alter or censor, or retaliating against an individual for failure to alter or censor, scientific or technical findings