More than a year after a federal appeals court declined to revive his discrimination lawsuit, a retired government employee is pinning his hopes on Congress.Terry Whitney of Indianapolis is urging members of Congress to revive bipartisan legislation that would clear the way for workers without direct access to classified information to appeal certain personnel actions to the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.The legislation would overturn the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Kaplan v …