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Speier: U.S. House Paid $15 Million to Its Secret Sexual Harassment Victims
breitbart.com ^ | Nov 14, 2017 | Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 11/15/2017 3:57:23 AM PST by blueyon

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet the Press Daily on Tuesday that the U.S. House of Representatives has paid $15 million to alleged victims of sexual harassment by its own members in recent years.

“We do know there is about $15 million that has been paid out by the House on behalf of harassers in the last ten to 15 years,” she said.

“15 million dollars has been paid out over sexual harassment claims,” Todd replied, somewhat shocked. “So, obviously more than one member of Congress.”

Pressed for details, Speier said she did not know how many members of Congress were involved. She also explained that victims had signed non-disclosure agreements. “If the taxpayers are involved, don’t we have the right to know?” Todd asked later in the segment.

“I think you do have the right to know,” she said. “But right now, under the system, you don’t have a right to know.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama; US: California
KEYWORDS: agenda; alabama; california; chucktodd; congress; corruption; democratmgop; democrats; jackiespeier; liars; mediabias; meetthepress; msnbc; roymoore; scandal; sex; sexscandal
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The nerve of Congress. Speaking out against Roy Moore when they seems to have actual scandals going on.
1 posted on 11/15/2017 3:57:23 AM PST by blueyon
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To: blueyon

How big is the Senate fund?


2 posted on 11/15/2017 4:03:47 AM PST by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: blueyon

We have the right to know what is done with OUR money.

I want names.

I don’t care if half the government resigns in disgrace, after the crap they are throwing at Judge Moore, the residents of glass houses need to be outed.


3 posted on 11/15/2017 4:06:50 AM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: blueyon

Where are the puritans, McConnell and Ryan on this? Too busy talking about the ‘integrity of congress’. (eyes rolling)


4 posted on 11/15/2017 4:08:46 AM PST by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: blueyon

Isn’t it nice to know the hard earned dollars from citizens are used to pay off millions of dollars in hush money to victims of sexual harassment by our fine and pure members of Congress.


5 posted on 11/15/2017 4:09:35 AM PST by Flick Lives (The FBI is a taxpayer funded Mafia organization)
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“We do know there is about $15 million that has been paid out by the House...
Really is the some fund that members of the House are required to withhold from their paycheck? I think not. The taxpayer has paid for those settlements.
6 posted on 11/15/2017 4:17:41 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Crush the Democrats; see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the girly men.)
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To: blueyon

F.O.I.A.


7 posted on 11/15/2017 4:20:22 AM PST by mikec256
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To: blueyon

The offenders need to be outed.


8 posted on 11/15/2017 4:20:59 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

I join Mark Levin’s call for both Ryan and McConnell to resign immediately for allowing this culture to exist under their watch. Spread the word please, thanks!


9 posted on 11/15/2017 4:32:46 AM PST by Golden Eagle (Donald Trump: "People will die because of the Russia investigation, and it's a pure hit job")
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To: blueyon

I bet the payout was much more since the Democrat revealing this likely has left out money paid in many Democrat cases.


10 posted on 11/15/2017 4:43:40 AM PST by nclaurel
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To: blueyon

If this is true, it will resonate with the American people, as did the House bank and post office scandal. People could understand that they could not float themselves loans as congressman could. Ordinary workers have a harder time understanding that the huge amount that is withheld every paycheck goes for many corrupt things plus they just ever see that money. Let us hope.


11 posted on 11/15/2017 4:45:45 AM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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To: blueyon

Newt married one of his staffers. Thad Cochran married his long time secretary when his wife eventually passed away in a nursing home in Mississippi. Etc. It might be safer to choose just one person to harass and then to marry him/her. I’m waiting for one of these saints to marry a same sex staffer. Heh.

But Roy Moore allegedly groped a waitress 40 years ago and wrote a Christmas message in her high school yearbook five months or so after the yearbook was distributed at school. How many other folks signed her yearbook at Christmas? Maybe she just wanted an autograph of an important person.


12 posted on 11/15/2017 4:52:53 AM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: blueyon

Shouldn’t they be resigning like they want Moore to do?


13 posted on 11/15/2017 5:02:44 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: blueyon

This is just so wrong. How about publicizing names of staffers and Senators/Reps who had their hush money paid for them? These are cases where they admitted their guilt. How dare DC Swampthings play “guilty until proven innocent” when they don’t publicize these names?


14 posted on 11/15/2017 5:11:52 AM PST by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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The nerve of Congress. Speaking out against Roy Moore when they seems to have actual scandals going on.

If they succeed in destroying Roy Moore, you think it will end there?

"John, don't you worry about Ward; I've already got the Post in Arizona digging up dirt on her."

"...and whatever dirt they can't find, they'll make up just like they did in Alabama."


15 posted on 11/15/2017 5:20:24 AM PST by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: mikec256

I saw in another article that the victims were required to sign non-disclosures to get their hush money. Just like in Hollywood.

Any bets Joe Biden is on the list of accused? He is way too interested in little girls.


16 posted on 11/15/2017 5:23:49 AM PST by IamConservative (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: blueyon

Not to overlook the possibility that congressmen are just plain stealing our money.


17 posted on 11/15/2017 5:56:39 AM PST by Spok
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What a bunch of compromised perverts and nitwits. Great “leaders”...no?


18 posted on 11/15/2017 6:10:02 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: blueyon

I don’t think finding the Names of all these deviant perverts is enough, they Should be Required to PAY the money back to the Taxpayers and then Criminally Prosecuted for STEALING Taxpayer Money and sent to Prison for LIFE!!!


19 posted on 11/15/2017 6:14:45 AM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: blueyon

Is it time to consider a wholesale replacement of our entire fed.gov? If not now, when?


20 posted on 11/15/2017 6:38:43 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Please stop using the term 'democratic' when referring to demoncrats. They are nothing of the sort!)
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