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Ally Coll Steele said “I was in the position of having no choice but reacting in a way that was going to make a big deal out of it in front his staff or his wife, or acting like nothing was happening. I chose the latter.”
Steele who is a lawyer talked about having her buttocks grabbed by a Democratic Senator. She was 18 years at the time.
Another lady who wanted to remain anonymous said she was repeatedly groped. She said “he would just grab me. It happened multiple times. The worst part was my other male colleagues would excuse it. He stayed on Capitol Hill for years.”
“There is a sense that going forward with an allegation like this would be completely the end of any career working for anybody on the Hill — and it undoubtedly would be,” Debra Katz.
Debra Katz is an employment attorney in Washington.
“We have no doubt that sexual harassment is under-reported in Congress, just as all workplace infractions are under-reported in Congress,” said Brad Fitch.
Brad Fitch is the President and Chief Executive of the Congressional Management Foundation.
