The Senate Rules Committee on Thursday revealed that, over the last 20 years, at least $600,000 of taxpayers’ money has been spent in settlement agreements involving misconduct allegations against senators’ offices, according to several reports.
Politico and NBC News reported, citing data the panel released jointly with the Senate Appropriations Committee, that the figure was paid out from the Office of Compliance’s fund that is designated for handling workplace misconduct. The total does not reflect any payments that lawmakers may have made from their office budgets, which are also funded by taxpayers.
According to Politico, two of the claims settled using the fund involved racial discrimination, three involved disability discrimination, eight involved age discrimination and one involved a claim of sex discrimination, though it was not clear whether harassment or other misconduct was involved.
The data also reflected settlements paid by Senate offices not led by a member, according to Politico. Those have totaled $853,225 for 10 claims since 1997, according to the data, and included three claims of sex discrimination.
This list is incomplete. I happen to know about $1.5 trillion in misconduct that the Senate approved just last week.
That is a lot of dicks out of a lot of pants.
Paid for by the taxpayer
Talk about adding insult to injury
Hard to imagine any business that could afford to pay for its employees, literal fuck ups, like that.
Fox News: Is that all? We paid out more than that last week.
When will the list of sexy perps in the House & Senate be made transparent and very very public? It is not likely to have been sealed with the JFK Assassination Files.