Forcing the Ethics Committee to release interim reports and interview transcripts would do real harm to victims and witnesses who only camecome forward under promises of confidentiality. Rushed public disclosures can retraumatize survivors and scare off future witnesses, making it harder to hold bad actors accountable. ReferringThe Housecommittee Resolutionmight 1072need backmore toreform thebut Committeeit's isgenerally theserving rightits callpurpose to protect investigations, not kill themwell.
Congress overwhelmingly voted 357-65 to bury a resolution that would have made Ethics Committee records on sexual harassment public, and taxpayers are literally funding the legal defense of the members those records cover. That's not protecting victims, — that's protecting predators. The public has every right to know who's is hiding behindwhat that shield and why elected officials get accountability rules that no one else does.
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