Congress will move to work-arounds unless strictly prohibited:
1) Buy “sexual harassment” insurance policies, with the huge premiums paid by the taxpayers as “office expenses”.
2) Arrange for third “investors” (lobbyists, etc.) to pay for them.
3) Combo’s and Others TBD.
Unless both are banned, the new arrangement is a fraud. The bums will never pay themselves. It’s not as if they are in Congress for public service.
Id at least like them publicized. We should know whose been accused and especially whose paid.
Taxpayers must strictly prohibit these practices:
<><> Buying sexual harassment insurance policies; premiums paid by taxpayers as office expenses.
<><> Colluding with third parties (lobbyists, etc.) to pay the bills.
<><> tax-paid hush money disguised as bonuses to victims
<><> tax-paid severances to victims
<><> no-show jobs to silence victims
<><> tax-paid legal assistance to victims
<><> payouts from the Office of Compliance
<><> payouts from tax-paid office budgets
Plus all other forms of tax-paid bribery and tax-paid hush money.