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What the hell happened in 2007? Record Congressional Settlement payout.. (Original Post)
HipChick
Nov 2017
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snowybirdie
(5,227 posts)1. Let's name
names. It's our tax dollars!
HipChick
(25,485 posts)2. I am sure the names will start leaking shortly...Turtle is going to have to whip up a lot of of
investigations...
JDC
(10,128 posts)3. 2002 stands out also
Less than half of the number of settlements and almost the same $ as 2007
HipChick
(25,485 posts)4. I need to see who left the Senate in those years...
Vinca
(50,273 posts)5. 2007 might have had something to do with Mark Foley.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)6. I assume some of this pay out was the result of
sexual harassment on the part of Staff members. I know of one Senator's Chief of Staff who was a serial sexual harasser.