It took months of negotiations, but House and Senate lawmakers struck a deal Wednesday on what, exactly, the new Capitol Hill policy should look like. The new policy will also hold members of Congress personally financially liable for sexual harassment settlements. This is a direct response to problems created by former Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas), for example, who abruptly resigned in April to avoid the fallout over his sexual harassment scandal. House lawmakers, for example, wanted to make members of Congress pay out of pocket for discrimination settlements too and wanted to provide legal representation to all accusers. But the Senate, which finally caved on requiring lawmakers to pay out of pocket for sexual harassment settlements, rejected both of those provisions and neither ended up in the final bill.

Source: Huffington Post December 13, 2018 18:33 UTC