Male GOP senators balk at new rules requiring them to pay their own sexual harassment settlements

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Source: think progress




The women of the chamber — and Democratic men — all support the legislation.

Apr 19, 2018, 12:15 pm



Male Democratic senators are preparing to join female senators from both sides of the aisle in supporting legislation to overhaul workplace sexual harassment rules on Capitol Hill.

According to Politico, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) appealed to chamber leaders in a letter, encouraging floor debate on the issue.


The letter, written by male Democrats, is addressed to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and is co-signed by 31 male Democratic senators.

The letter is set to be released sometime Thursday, but a copy obtained by Politico says that if they don’t act soon, Congress will “lose all credibility in the eyes of the American public regarding our capacity to protect victims of sexual harassment or discrimination in any setting.”....................



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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. These filthy traitors also balk at the idea of a human child on the Senate floor.

[barbtries]

4. that passed unanimously

so they must have gotten over it. this though, this is such amazing bullshit. there never should have been a mechanism to get them off for their bad acts.

they always show up in suits and follow protocol and talk big. but behind the scenes they're scum, pure scum. and they hate women; walking talking anachronisms who want us back in the stone age. no thanks, i'm a woman and a human being.

[smirkymonkey]

2. It's very simple. Don't sexually harass anybody and you won't have to pay for

anything. Makes you wonder what skeletons these GOP senators have in their closets.

[Amimnoch]

6. The very fact that this is bipartisan is so disgusting.

Women Republicans need to wake up and realize that this is no longer the party of great women like Susan B Anthony, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Stanton, or Ida Wells.

The Republican party has no interest in them except as objects. That party has no interest in their rights, their dignity, nor their equality.

[christx30]

11. They don't see what they do as harassment.

"Oh it's just a little grab ass between co-workers."
Their minds are still stuck in the 60's. They're still in the Mad Men mindset. The behavior used to be an accepted part of the business and government world, but is no longer. I think a few bank-breaking settlements, paid directly from the accused himself, should educate them.

[smirkymonkey]

12. Yes. It's a good thing.

Wake up boys. The world doesn't revolve around you and the rest of us aren't going to let you get away with it anymore.

[FakeNoose]

25. The hanky-panky is mainly with interns

... and maybe "lobbyists" who are passing through. It's never with other Congress members, is my understanding. To the credit of the Republican women, they see this bill as a good thing to keep the GOP men in line. Or else get them out of office if they can't keep their pants zipped.

You'd think the evangelicals could get behind this issue. They still believe in family values, am I right?

[christx30]

27. The Evangelicals care more about stopping abortion

than they care about actual family values and stopping men from the uninvited groping of women. They proved that with their support of Pussy Grabber.

And you're right. The congressional men aren't groping fellow congress critters. They are all about the power. They prey on people with less power than them. Sex is secondary to them.

[barbtries]

3. they're so bad

they're so badthey're so badthey're so badthey're so badthey're so badthey're so badthey're so badthey're so badthey're so bad

make me want to scream.

[turbinetree]

5. Discrimination was lost in what was called the 1492 event

Sexual intimidation / harassment was lost when this happened and a sexual predator was placed in office................

[DippyDem]

7. So it sounds like the male Repigs still have designs on

harassing male and or female co-workers, office personnel and teenagers/underaged pages and others on outside. Perverts...all of them!

[BumRushDaShow]

8. "How DARE they make me pay for my pussy-grabbing!"

[George II]

9. "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime"! If you aren't a sleazebag, you've got no liability.

[rurallib]

16. used to hear that all the time from Republicans - the personal responsibility party

[Delmette2.0]

10. It's called personal responsibility.

Something the GOP talks about but doesn't practice.

[Dawson Leery]

13. Find me a Conservative that takes responsibility for themselves and....

never mind, they never do.

[Jedi Guy]

30. I know two of them: my parents.

I may disagree with them politically on a lot of things, but never have I heard my father or mother blame their personal failings on anyone or anything else. When they make a mistake, they own up to it and deal with it. Again, I disagree with their politics on nearly everything, but I acknowledge their personal integrity.

This may be a very unpopular sentiment, so flame away, but not all conservatives are reprehensible human beings.

[S.E. TN Liberal]

14. I mean, now really...

Who the Hell think they have the right to insist republican'ts start being responsible for their own actions???

It ain't gonna happen. They can't be conservatives and be responsible for their own actions. That would be like having matter and anti-matter be the same thing. Nature won't allow it.

[Kablooie]

15. It's so much more American to make us taxpayers pay for their sexual dalliances.

[Farmer-Rick]

17. I thought the story was a joke, from the Onion or something.

But no it's real.

Bunch of men upset because they have to pay for their own sexual misconduct.

Who pays for my sexual misconduct? I do. Who pays for your sexual misconduct? You do. But somehow these guys think they are special, and the American taxpayer should pay for their sexual misconduct. What a scam.

[CaptainTruth]

18. Scumbags. Period. nt

[Angry Dragon]

19. poor babies

[ellie]

20. God,

I thought this was The Onion.

[Ukrainian Yankee]

21. The Party of Personal Responsibility

Unless it costs. What a fucking joke!

[Solly Mack]

22. In Louisiana the GOP is against NOT being allowed to have sex with animals

and the GOP males in Congress want taxpayers to pay for them when they sexually harass women.

Family values.

Snort.

[LiberalFighter]

23. They need to ask themselves how they would feel if an employee grab ass them.

Or their spouse. Or their younger children.

[SWBTATTReg]

24. I wondered when I read this ...

article if any names of those having their harassment settlements via Congress was ever released? I seem to recall that they refused to release names when the MeToo movement started a couple of months ago. Never did see any lists come out either.

[riversedge]

28. I think they only get released if someone leaks. IMHO#🌊🌊🌊 #FlipItBlue #BlueWave2018 #VoteThemOUT

[Freethinker65]

26. Why can't they just ask Michael Cohen for the payoff money like Trump did?

[Maeve]

29. Do the crime, pay the dime

And get out of office if you think it makes you a target.