Published by The Daily Signal
By Kyle Perisic
Leaders of conservative organizations are calling on Congress to pass a law to prevent taxpayer funds from being used to pay settlements to alleged victims of sexual harassment and other workplace violations by members of Congress.
Their call for congressional action was spurred by the recent revelation that $17 million has gone toward secretly paying off such claims against members of Congress over the past 20 years.
More than 60 conservative leaders signed a memo and letter Jan. 18 penned by the Conservative Action Project. Among the signatories was Edwin Meese III, attorney general under President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, several other Reagan administration officials, and leaders of many nonprofit organizations. Meese is also the Ronald Reagan fellow emeritus at The Heritage Foundation.
The authors of the memo called the recent revelation of so-called “hush” funds “shocking, offensive and profoundly wrong.” They cited “at least nine public polls” taken in November and December that found the American public “revulsed” by taxpayer money going to the settlements and to hush funds.
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