“No one had an answer when we asked, ‘What happens if the harasser is a member of Congress?’”one AOC worker told investigators in a confidential questionnaire.
“This was not a hypothetical question. It happens.”
Members of Congress allegedly sexually harassed night shift custodial staff while they cleaned their offices. Sexual harassment prevention training went off the rails. And the Architect of the Capitol has no unified system for effectively tracking complaints and resolutions of sexual harassment cases.
These are just some of the findings in a recent inspector general’s report on sexual harassment within the AOC in the last decade.
https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/Combined%20AOC%20OIG%20Sexual%20Harassment%20Inquiry%20with%20AOC%20response.pdf
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/architect-of-the-capitol-sexual-harassment-report