Every U.S. Senator Will Be Required to Undergo Sexual Harassment Training

CNSNews ^ | November 10, 2017 | Staff

[jazusamo]

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D.-Minn.)

(CNSNews.com) - Every member of the U.S. Senate and all staff members are required to undergo sexual harassment training in the next 60 days and at least once every two years after that under the terms of a resolution that the Senate approved on Thursday evening .

The resolution was sponsored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D.-Minn.), the ranking member of the Senate Rules Committee, and co-sponsored by 19 others. Among the co-sponsors were Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.), Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R.-Iowa), Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D.-Ill.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R.-Texas).

“[T]his resolution will simply require that all Senators and staff receive sexual harassment training, as well as on other forms of harassment, at least once every 2 years—in addition to that, 60 days after it passes,” Klobuchar said on the Senate floor shortly before the resolution was approved.

“What happens if Senators do not receive this training?’ said Klobuchar.
“The American people will know.”

“[A]ll offices will have to certify to the Secretary of the Senate that they and their employees here in Washington, as well as those working in our home states, have, in fact, taken the training and complied with the resolution,” said Klobuchar. “These certifications will be posted online for the public to view.”

“We are all too aware that sexual harassment continues in our workplaces,” she said. “A recent study found that one in four women has been sexually harassed in the workplace and that three-quarters of individuals who have experienced sexual harassment at work have not reported the incidences. Civil service is actually among the top five industries with the highest sexual harassment incidences.

“We know that it will not stop on its own, and we will not be complacent bystanders who expect workplace cultures to change on their own,” she said.

In a written statement, Sen. Grassley said Congress has a duty "to set high standards of conduct."

“By passing this resolution, we take a step to ensure that all who work for the Senate are able to do their job without feeling unsafe or uncomfortable,” said Grassley. “No place of work is immune to the all-too-prevalent scourge of sexual harassment, but we in Congress have a particular duty to set high standards of conduct. In the wake of so many scandals and reports of sexual harassment around the country, it’s critical that we continue do everything we can to prevent it.”

The Senate agreed to the rule without objection.

[Redwood71]

What are they going to teach them? A number of them already know how to deposit semen on a blue dress. What else is there they can handle?

rwood

[PapaBear3625]

The “sexual harassment” stuff comes as a consequence of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with respect to the definition of “hostile work environment”.

I have a simpler solution: repeal the whole thing. If you don’t like how a co-worker is behaving, and management will not take action, then quit and work elsewhere. Or just deal with the situation.

[ExTexasRedhead]

How can We The People express what we think of these corrupt, lying, treasonous doubhe bags so that they hear it?

[facedown]

Welcome to the Gulag, Comrades.

[Bigg Red]

Yeah, if they need that type of training at this point in life, they are hopeless.

Just more junk so the legislators can say they are doing something. How much of our money will this nonsense cost?

I love what one of my brothers-in-law said to the HR person a few years before he retired. This was in the 1990s, and his company had just instituted this type of training about a year before the BIL was called to HR and informed that he had not yet taken the training for sexual harassment prevention. My BIL, who would be most unlikely to ever one say anything inappropriate to a woman, told the HR person, “Look, I’m 62 years old. Don’t you think it’s rather insulting for you to tell me how to act?”

He never did go to the workshop during the 3 or so years he remained at that company.

[Kenny500c]

Should be a 1 minute “lesson.”

Don’t touch any woman, anywhere without permission.

Don’t talk about sex in the work place, period.

[Let's Roll]

Continually amazed at the people who really think they should be running things. Bottom line - normal people don’t run for office.

[Hieronymus]

I’m sure there are tens of thousands at least. But I doubt that even two are actually in the Senate.

[jazusamo]

Good for your BIL.

This kind of stuff has gotten so far out of hand I can’t say on this forum what I really think.

As far as Senators or Congressmen having to take this training, if they don’t already have the morals to act properly they ain’t gonna get it now.

Like you say, just a waste of time and money.

[fhayek]

Too bad they didn’t do that when Hillary was senator. That would have been a hoot. I mean, I bet that there was not a THING about sexual harassment that Hillary does not know about. She learned at the foot of the master.

[jazusamo]

Yep, basic child upbringing from many years ago.

[TigersEye]

Would be better for them to undergo Constitutional training.

They should have to take a test on the Constitution prior to being allowed on the ballot in the first place with scores made public. In addition to drug and alcohol testing before the election and throughout their tenure if elected.

[jazusamo]

No doubt about it, and she ignored it because of political ambition.

[ealgeone]

I don’t think they need the training....some of them like Ted Kennedy were pretty good at sexual harassment!

[daler]

I don’t know...maybe Tammy Baldwin would sexually harass Amy Klobuchar.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

And how will this help if they did it 40 years ago ... or at least if someone “says” they did it 40 years ago?

[BwanaNdege]

Problem solved, right? There is NOTHING that another law or more training cannot fix

I realize that your post is sarcasm. This just is to second that.

H.L. Menken 1880-1956

“All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the main, to lawyers, and, in part at least, to good ones. They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every Federal judge is a lawyer. So are most Congressmen. Every invasion of the plain rights of the citizens has a lawyer behind it. ”

[Fred Hayek]

Senator from Minnestoopid.

[nuke_road_warrior]

And here I thought they already knew how to do sexual harassment.