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.

[ully2]

I personally don’t agree that we should be training senators to sexually harass

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

[Albion Wilde]

Long overdue. However, I would have preferred to see them first required to take a course in basic civics, the Bill of Rights and basic Consitutional law. I had hoped Betsy deVos would initiate such a bill.

[SubMareener]

Hasn’t it been established that they all know how to do sexual harassment? They don’t need lessons.

[waredbird]

Absolutely. They’ve just admitted there is not one adult in the chamber. They should all resign.

[elcid1970]

“Would be better for them to undergo Constitutional training.”

You nailed it, FRiend!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Why train them? Seems like hey are already pretty good at it.

[stylin19a]

boy, that sure reads funny. I think they already know how to sexual harass.
it probably should read something like “Sexual Harassment Prevention” etc...

[LegendHasIt]

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

Why would they need training? I'm guessing that most of them are experts at it.

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Oh, Wait, They mean training them NOT to do it.

Nevermind.

[Reily]

They don’t need it!
They already know to do it!

[LegendHasIt]

Heh, So many above read the headline the same way I did, but typed faster.

[ssaftler]

Too bad Senator “Splash” Kennedy isn’t still around. That man had a Ph.D. on Sexual Harassment! Then again, given his daddy and his two brothers, it was a “family business”, along with the rum running in the 1920s.

[buckalfa]

"Has the country become so bereft of character that 100 honest people can’t be found? /Not rhetorical."

Power, real or perceived, has the ability to do funny things to a person's moral compass.

[jazusamo]

You couldn’t have put that any better and of course the rum running made all the following possible.

[madprof98]

Send ‘em to DUI School. Works wonders for everybody who goes.

[kosciusko51]

+1 LOL. When my company’s HR sent out the notice for sexual harassment training, I said something similar.

[Gay State Conservative]

He’s a saaaaadddd Panda!

[vette6387]

Brought to you by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, probably the only female Senator no one would touch with someone else’s ten foot pole, with the exception of perhaps Patty Murray!

[jazusamo]

LOL! Very well said, and Osama Mama is one of my Senators.

[Chgogal]

How about a “stop the spending” seminar, dear Senators?