Only three Texas members of Congress voted to disclose sexual harassment claims

(The Center Square) – Of the 357 members of Congress who don’t want taxpayers to know which members have used taxpayer funds to pay sexual harassment claims, 32 are Texans, including nearly all of Texas Republican and Democratic members of Congress.

An untold number of members of Congress have spent a combined roughly $17 million of taxpayer money to settle sexual harassment claims made against them, according to U.S. House records.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-SC, filed a resolution directing the U.S. House Committee on Ethics to “preserve and publicly release all records related to investigations into Members of Congress for sexual harassment, unwelcome sexual advances, and sexual assault under House rules.” The requirement would keep victim information confidential.

The overwhelming majority of Congress, 357 Republicans and Democrats, voted to refer the resolution to committee knowing doing so likely would kill it, Mace and others argued, The Center Square ...