Before we get uptight about Franken, let's see all 260 Congressional sexual harassment settlements

[FarCenter]

Congress paid out $15 million in settlements. Here's why we know so little about that money.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/settlements-congress-sexual-harassment/index.html

Let's get it all out on the table instead of dealing with cases one-by-one.

[Vinca]

1. Absolutely. FOIA requests have to have been made.

Franken's comedic photo is not the same as the weeny wagging reported by one of the women in Congress.

[FarCenter]

5. FOIA doesn't apply to Congress, which is another thing that should be changed.

Enacted in 1966, FOIA “applies to records either created or obtained by an agency and under agency control at the time of the FOIA request,” noted a summary by the Internal Revenue Service. “Agencies within the executive branch of the federal government, including the Executive Office of the President and independent regulatory agencies, are subject to the FOIA. State governments, municipal corporations, the courts, Congress and private citizens are not subject to the FOIA.”

http://www.govexec.com/management/2016/03/why-foia-obligations-dont-apply-congress/126982/

[Vinca]

6. That's amazing. I had no idea.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Accuser is lying, this much we now know.

[Roland99]

4. Photo was staged.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TearsInHeaven09/status/931196735107448832

[Freethinker65]

3. Yep. And public testimony from all those still alive. Questioned by female congressional peers