Well, well, well. Turns out Congress passed a law to protect itself from sexual harassment allegations and Slick Willie signed it in 1995. Since then, they have paid $17 MILLION in taxpayer funded hush money (average of $65K per incident).
264 Staffers Paid $17 Million In Congressional Harassment Hush Money
The reason so few incidents of harassment, sexual and otherwise, of Congressional staffers by members of Congress have ended up in financial settlements is because Congress passed a law in 1995 (signed by Bill Clinton) designed to protect itself from such claims – prohibiting their employees from having the same rights of redress that more than two million other federal employees and tens of millions of private sector employees have.
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