{"id":89535,"date":"2018-03-29T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T21:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89535"},"modified":"2018-03-27T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:23:18","slug":"gillibrand-issues-statement-on-house-and-senate-leadership-stripping-sexual-harassment-language-from-omnibus-bill-at-11th-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89535","title":{"rendered":"Gillibrand issues statement on House and Senate leadership stripping sexual harassment language from Omnibus Bill at 11th\u00a0hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-87672\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gillibrand-300x172.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gillibrand-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gillibrand-150x86.png 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gillibrand-400x229.png 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/gillibrand.png 545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Gillibrand issues statement on House and Senate leadership stripping sexual harassment language from Omnibus Bill at 11th\u00a0hour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Provisions from Bipartisan\u00a0Congressional Harassment Reform Act, which were included in Omnibus until the last minute of the negotiation process, would have finally put members of Congress on the hook for sexual harassment settlements if found personally responsible and ended required secrecy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand released the following statement March 19 after reports that House and Senate leadership stripped her\u00a0Congressional Harassment Reform Act\u00a0language from the omnibus bill. Provisions from Gillibrand\u2019s bipartisan\u00a0Congressional Harassment Reform Act, which is currently cosponsored by more than a quarter of the Senate, were included in the omnibus bill throughout the negotiation process, but were removed by leadership at the last minute:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am appalled that House and Senate leadership removed provisions from the omnibus bill at the last minute that would have finally brought accountability and transparency to Congress\u2019s sexual harassment reporting process,\u201d Gillibrand said. \u201cIt begs the question: Who are they trying to protect? I can\u2019t think of<!--more--> any legitimate reason to remove this language other than to protect members of Congress over taxpayers and congressional employees.\u00a0Nothing about this should be controversial at this point; the Congressional Harassment Reform Act has broad bipartisan support in the Senate and these provisions already passed the House unanimously. I demand that Senate leadership bring my legislation to the floor for a vote immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gillibrand has been a vocal leader in urging Congress to reform its own process for victims of sexual harassment. She introduced the\u00a0Congressional Harassment Reform Act\u00a0in December 2017 with more than 20 bipartisan cosponsors. Last month, Gillibrand called on Senate Leadership to take immediate action to bring the\u00a0Congressional Harassment Reform Act\u00a0up for a vote or include it in the upcoming omnibus legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gillibrand issues statement on House and Senate leadership stripping sexual harassment language from Omnibus Bill at 11th\u00a0hour Provisions from Bipartisan\u00a0Congressional Harassment Reform Act, which were included in Omnibus until the last minute of the negotiation process, would have finally put members of Congress on the hook for sexual harassment settlements if found personally responsible and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,23811,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-national","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}