Daily Caller: As the Christmas holiday weekend set in, the Senate Rules and Administration Committee released a report revealing the Senate has spent $1.5 million on workplace harassment settlements since 1998.
The data, provided by the Office of Compliance, a little known administrative body that has quietly settled dozens of complaints against congressional offices, provides little by way of details, beyond an itemized list of violations and the corresponding settlement.
GOP Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, who chairs the Rules Committee, said further particulars cannot be made public, in order to respect the confidentiality afforded to victims.
“While the Rules Committee has been eager to provide this information in a transparent manner, it has been our priority to protect the victims involved in these settlements from further harm,” the senator said in a statement attending the report. “I am pleased that we have received assurances from Senate Legal Counsel that the release of this data does not violate confidentiality and as such, are able to make it public.” read more
And it was Richard Shelby’s sorry ass that encouraged people in AL not to vote for Roy Moore because 3 women made highly dubious, 40 year old accusations against him …… not actual taxpayer funded settlements for sexual harassment committed by cohorts of Shelby if not Shelby himself. Shelby is just another sack of swamp creature dung that needs to be removed from office immediately.
The payouts should be debited from these folks’ salary ,pension and healthcare.
Bullshit! WHO made the payments (Kongress Kritters) can be released without compromising the victims and payees.
Nobody cares about who the victims were you berk; we care about the identities of the OFFENDERS!