Congressional Sexual Harassment Settlement Records Disclosure

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2026-04-17 — No Pensions for Congressional Predators Act: cross-connection with no-pensions-congressional-predators-act: Both address member-of-Congress accountability for sexual/predatory misconduct — one via financial forfeiture of pensions, the other via disclosure of harassment settlement records. (novelty: 2)
2026-07-21 — Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to prohibit Members of the House from entering inappropriate relationships with House employees.: cross-connection with house-member-employee-relationship-prohibition: Both address misconduct by Members toward congressional employees—one sets an ex ante conduct rule, the other governs ex post disclosure of settlements. (novelty: 2)
2026-06-30 — Directing the Committee on Ethics to preserve and publicly release records relating to .monetary settlements involving acts of sexual harassment.: H.Res. 1399 introduced, directing the House Committee on Ethics to preserve and publicly release records relating to monetary settlements involving acts of sexual harassment (transparency measure; no new substantive rights or enforcement framework). (novelty: 2)