A year after the enactment of major reforms addressing sexual harassment in Congress, bipartisan group of lawmakers introduces new legislation to address provisions left out of the 2018 law.
The 2018 law rewrote the process so that members of Congress, not taxpayers, were made personally liable for paying out settlements when found guilty of sexual harassment.
“It should be something that we not only reject but hold accountable by having members pay for any settlement that results from discrimination,” Speier said.
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