Lawmakers are demanding transparency on $17 of million taxpayers’ money spent on settling harassment claims and workplace disputes.
Republican Representatives Thomas Massie from Kentucky and Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene have urged the US Congress to disclose the names of lawmakers who have used taxpayer money to settle workplace disputes, including sexual harassment claims. Since 1997, over $17 million has been paid out for such cases.
In a post on X on Thursday, Massie highlighted the issue, stating that “Congress has secretly paid out more than $17 million of your money to quietly settle charges of harassment (sexual and other forms) in Congressional offices.” The lawmaker insisted that the names of the representatives involved must be released.
Taylor Greene supported Massie’s call, writing on X that she wishes to release the “congressional sexual slush fund list.” She emphasized that taxpayers should not have been responsible for these payments in the first place, or for “all the other garbage that they should not have to pay for.”
The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights (OCWR), established in 1995, oversees these settlements. Between 1997 and 2017, the OCWR disbursed over $17 million to resolve nearly 300 cases, covering issues like sexual harassment, discrimination, and pay disputes. The office does not disclose the identities of those involved in the settlements.
Former Representatives Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) have also expressed support for releasing the names associated with these settlements. Brooks stated that taxpayer money should never be used to secretly bail out harassers, advocating personal accountability to deter misconduct. Chaffetz concurred, asserting that taxpayers deserve transparency.
This renewed demand for transparency follows the release of a House Ethics Committee report accusing former Republican Florida Representative Matt Gaetz of using illegal drugs and paying tens of thousands of dollars for sex, including with a minor. Gaetz has vehemently denied the allegations and has in turn proposed a plan to expose the individuals involved in harassment settlements.
The OCWR has previously stated that a significant portion of the cases it handles involve employees not directly affiliated with the House or Senate, such as from the Library of Congress or the Capitol Police. Additionally, settlements reached outside the OCWR, like the 2015 case involving the late Democratic Michigan Representative John Conyers, are not included in the disclosed figures.
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The OCWR is probably just as useless as the U.S. Office of Special Counsel which denies disability retirements to those Federal Employees permanently injured on the job…many of them Veterans as well!
Only when the injured employee hires a lawyer(s) and spends an average of US$40K does anything get accomplished with cases that are continually denied on self-filed appeals.
40% of those living in tents and homeless encampments are Veterans who have been denied their Civil Service Disability, and / or their VA Compensation…
BUT-
The various levels of the Masonic Government in the U.S. have no problem ‘checking-up’ on a Veteran who has filed for Disability or Compensation via law enforcement ‘Safety Checks’ and illegally removing the firearms from Veterans who have filed claims…
Hence, the Veterans have re-located their firearms, ammo, and survival gear & rations off-site to where most live…especially the tent-dwelling Veterans.
Gun Control is a Zionist J3wi$h modus, as seen in the Bolshevik control of Russia in 1917 which also outlawed free speech if one criticised the J3wi$h Communist Bolsheviks and any arm of the Zionist / Talmudis government of Russia from 1917 – 1990!
How will WE as Kiwis defend ourselves IF we’re invaded, or the Uni-Party Government goes rogue with enforcing the WEF / WHO / NWO illegal laws, ‘mandates’ and policies of oppression similar to what Jabby did..thus violating the Nuremburg Code, Human Rights under the U.N., & N.Z. Law?
The Globalists are already stating that Bird Flu is now transmitted by cats, in order to get rid of them as they keep the disease-ridden rats and birds in check, and are our beloved pets and companions…!
Then, they’ll come for the dogs…and finally ‘infected humans’…all of who will be exterminated with another bio-weapon designed ‘Kill Shot’ or just outright murdered, their organs harvested (like in the Ukraine!) and the Deagel Forecast then comes into fruition!
Public sentiment can turn on a heel once the SHTF.
And hit it will.
But that is what most polit-lard-asses are too dumb and too self-absorbed to realize.
BTW: is there a list of what NZ politicians are jewish?
Drain the swamp