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Lawmakers on Tuesday adopted a proposal led by Rep. Thomas Massie aimed at publicly naming House members who paid out sexual misconduct settlements using taxpayer dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The issue has become a rallying cry in recent months, as some call for transparency around what they\u2019ve dubbed the \u201cslush fund.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Members of Congress must now foot such bills themselves, thanks to a 2018 law that also requires the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights to publish an annual report disclosing misconduct payments and whether they have been reimbursed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Massie said he feared there were \u201cloopholes\u201d in that law that need to be fixed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would urge my colleagues to vote for this in the interest of transparency and openness,\u201d the Kentucky Republican said Tuesday on the floor.<\/p>\n

Massie\u2019s directs the OCWR and House Ethics Committee to release within 60 days a \u201csingle consolidated list\u201d of members who paid out settlements, along with aggregate totals for misconduct by House employees. The resolution was easily adopted Tuesday afternoon, with no member voting against it.<\/p>\n

It comes as Congress grapples with how to clean up its image amid recent allegations of sexual misconduct, which led to the resignations of former Reps. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier in the year, the House had sidestepped other calls for transparency, waving aside a broader push from Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., in March.<\/p>\n

Mace\u2019s resolution would have required the House Ethics Committee to preserve and publish records of its sexual misconduct investigations, with names of victims redacted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reps. Michael Guest and Mark DeSaulnier, chair and ranking member of the House Ethics Committee, said at the time that Mace\u2019s proposal \u201ccould chill victim cooperation and witness participation in ongoing and future investigations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Massie said in a brief interview after Tuesday\u2019s vote that he tried to \u201climit the scope of mine\u201d to avoid that objection, while also \u201cbroadening the definition of a claim for sexual harassment, sexual abuse, or sexual misconduct, so that it might catch things that weren\u2019t disclosed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Both Massie and Mace brought up their resolutions as questions of privilege, a process that allows members to force floor votes on certain topics even without the blessing of leadership.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rep. Kat Cammack said Tuesday she voted in favor of both proposals as someone who wants to \u201creally see a change in the culture up here on Capitol Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI welcome any attempt,\u201d said the Florida Republican, who was tapped to co-lead a bipartisan working group that is searching for ways to crack down on sexual harassment and help staffers report it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some have complained that Congress has done little since the MeToo movement to ensure accountability for bad behavior and needs to push more aggressively for change.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the House opted to refer Mace\u2019s resolution to the Ethics Committee earlier this year, where it has little chance of moving, the South Carolina Republican tried another strategy with more success. At an unrelated House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in March, she offered a motion to subpoena the OCWR for records of certain settlements made prior to December 2018, the date when the law that updated what\u2019s known as the Congressional Accountability Act was enacted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The panel agreed to the subpoena by voice vote, and Mace later shared a summary of results from the subpoena on her social media accounts, promising to reveal more after working to redact pages of documents.<\/p>\n

But \u201cyou shouldn\u2019t have to go get a subpoena through a committee to go find this,\u201d Massie said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

After losing his primary to a challenger backed by President Donald Trump, the Kentucky Republican said he was looking to check more items off his list before the end of the current Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSix months left, I\u2019m going to do something every week, so that I won\u2019t be sitting at home saying, \u2018I wish I\u2019d done that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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