DC: A conservative-leaning watchdog group says House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are the biggest congressional scofflaws of 2018, for their anemic handling of the settlement slush fund that used an unlimited pot of taxpayer money to pay off congressional staff in exchange for signing legal papers barring them from taking public their claims of sexual harassment and other mistreatment by their congressional employers.
Congress members briefly claimed to be shocked at the victim-gagging slush fund when the media reported on it, but in reality, members of both parties in the House’s leadership oversaw it for years. The Committee on House Administration voted on each settlement and put out statistics that severely understated the scope of the problem. Former Democratic Michigan Rep. John Conyers, whose settlement sparked the initial furor, resigned, and the media moved on from the story.
A bill by then-Rep. Ron Desantis that would have named the congressmen who benefited from these payoffs in past years went nowhere, while the bill agreed to by the administration committee and the Senate is more anemic. The rest are here
Scofflaws is much to nice a word for those two. I will be glad to see Ryan gone.
C’mon. Only 6?
Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now has an opportunity to act further…..
Yeah, fat chance of that happening. Almost like Botox being taken off the market, right Nan?
If each settlement was voted on by a congressional committee, why aren’t there transcripts of the committee meetings, as prescribed BY LAW?