House kills effort to release all congressional sexual misconduct and harassment reports

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

March 4, 2026, 2:34 PM EST / Updated March 4, 2026, 2:41 PM EST


WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday voted to scuttle an effort by Republican Rep. Nancy Mace to shed more light on sexual misconduct allegations against members of Congress.

Mace, a conservative Republican who is running to be governor of South Carolina, forced a floor vote on her resolution directing the House Ethics Committee to make public all reports on allegations of congressional lawmakers and aides engaging in sexual misconduct or harassment. But in a 357-65 vote, the House voted to refer the Mace resolution to committee — a move that effectively killed it.

The Ethics Committee had encouraged members to vote to refer the resolution. In a joint statement, the Republican and Democratic leaders of the committee argued it "could chill victim cooperation and witness participation in ongoing and future investigations" and would make it harder for the committee "to investigate and eliminate sexual misconduct in the House."

“Here and elsewhere, perpetrators of sexual misconduct should never be shielded from responsibility for their misdeeds,” Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss., and Ranking Member Mark DeSaulnier, D-Calif., said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-kills-effort-release-congressional-sexual-misconduct-harassment-rcna261679

[walkingman]

1. Total BS.....a case of do as I say not as I do....they talk a good game but it is just talk.

Republican and Democratic leaders of the committee argued it "could chill victim cooperation and witness participation in ongoing and future investigations" and would make it harder for the committee "to investigate and eliminate sexual misconduct in the House."

[Ponietz]

2. Vote yourselves a $%@& pay raise, too, worms

[BumRushDaShow]

3. "Vote yourselves a $%@& pay raise, too, worms"

Believe it or not, thanks to the 27th Amendment to the Constitution, if they did vote for a pay raise, it wouldn't go into effect until the next congressional session (with each "session" being 2 years)!

27th Amendment

Amendment XXVII

No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxxvii