House Paid Astonishing Sum to Make Sexual Harassment Claims Disappear

The federal government secretly used your tax dollars to settle sexual harassment claims against House members for decades. According to documents from the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights and Republican Representative Nancy Mace, who recently forced the release of those documents through a subpoena, the federal government paid out more than $338,000 from 2004 to 2017 to secretly settle sexual harassment claims against six House members or their offices. The following year, Congress bann...