“which makes me want to see even more who had to dip into the congressional slut fund.”
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According to a report from the Office of Compliance, more than $17 million has been paid out in settlements over a period of 20 years — 1997 to 2017.
According to the OOC data released Thursday, there have been 268 settlements. On Wednesday, Rep. Jackie Speier, the California Democrat who unveiled a bill to reform the OOC, announced at a news conference Wednesday that there had been 260 settlements. The previous tally did not include settlements paid in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Taxpayers. Once a settlement is reached, the money is not paid out of an individual lawmaker’s office but rather comes out of a special fund set up to handle this within the US Treasury — meaning taxpayers are footing the bill. The fund was set up by the Congressional Accountability Act, the 1995 law that created the Office of Compliance.
Speier told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that the 260 settlements represent those related to all kinds of complaints, including sexual harassment as well as racial, religious or disability-related discrimination complaints. The OOC has not made public the breakdown of the settlements, and Speier says she’s pursuing other avenues to find out the total.
In its latest disclosure, the OOC said that statistics on payments are “not further broken down into specific claims because settlements may involve cases that allege violations of more than one of the 13 statutes incorporated by the (Congressional Accountability Act).”
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/15/politics/sexual-harassment-legislation-speier-congress/index.html
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What would be TERRIFIC! is if we discovered Ol’ Joe was one of the ones with paid-off complaints!
What would be TERRIFIC! is if we discovered Ol’ Joe was one of the ones with paid-off complaints!
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Since taxpayer funded I can’t see why this is not subject to FOIA??
imo this should be made public for all to see