2026年6月30日 下午5:57 美东时间 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：安妮·格雷尔
更新于2026年6月30日 下午6:27 美东时间
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美国众议院以压倒性优势通过一项决议，要求公开国会议员委托达成的保密性骚扰和解记录。
共和党众议员托马斯·马西推动了此次投票，他表示已提交给议员的文件和信息不够充分。该决议以420票赞成、1名共和党议员弃权获得通过。
这项由共和党支持的举措，是议员们为回应国会山要求对性行为不端行为加强问责和透明度的呼声而做出的最新尝试，这一诉求得到两党支持。
今年早些时候，共和党众议员南希·梅斯发出传票后，国会职场权利办公室已被迫向国会提交和解文件。梅斯是此次投票中弃权的议员，她告诉CNN，此次决议与她此前的工作并无不同。
“我早就做过这件事了，”梅斯说，“我在3月份的监督工作中传唤了相关文件，并于5月份予以公开。这件事已经完成了。”
尽管这些文件显示，几十年来纳税人已为保密的国会性骚扰和解案件支付了超过50万美元，但马西认为该办公室还应公开更多信息。
“我只是觉得有信息被遗漏了，”马西在投票前说道，他补充道，他希望该办公室澄清是否还有更多记录可以提交。这位共和党议员的决议要求该办公室和众议院道德委员会都提交相关信息。
“如果有人认为我在做重复工作，那投赞成票就很简单了，”马西告诉CNN。
国会职场权利办公室总法律顾问在一封此前被CNN获取的、写给众议院监督委员会主席詹姆斯·科默的信中表示，1996年1月1日至2018年12月12日期间，该办公室共批准了349项“解决针对立法部门办公室的投诉”的裁决或和解案件。其中80起案件由众议院或参议院办公室出于各种原因达成和解。在这一子集中，有7起案件涉及支付款项以处理性骚扰指控。
信中提到的款项来自财政部的一个已不再作为议员选项的账户，该款项由纳税人承担。
2018年#MeToo运动后出台的政策变更规定，议员此后不得再使用纳税人资金支付和解费用。
众议院道德委员会在最近的一份声明中宣布，自新法律生效以来，“委员会未收到任何关于议员性骚扰指控的裁决或和解案件的通知”。
House votes to force release of records on sexual harassment settlements involving lawmakers
2026-06-30 5:57 PM ET / CNN
By Annie Grayer
Updated Jun 30, 2026, 6:27 PM ET
The US Capitol building in Washington, DC, on June 18.
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The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution to force the disclosure of records on confidential sexual harassment settlements on behalf of members Congress.
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie forced the vote, saying that he believes documents and information already turned over to lawmakers was not sufficient. The measure was approved with 420 votes and one GOP lawmaker voting present.
The Republican-backed effort is the latest attempt from lawmakers to respond to calls for more accountability and transparency on Capitol Hill regarding sexual misconduct, a push that has been supported on both sides of the aisle.
The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights was already compelled to turn over settlement documents to Congress following a subpoena from GOP Rep. Nancy Mace earlier this year. Mace was the one lawmaker to vote present on the measure, telling CNN it was no different from her previous work.
“I already did this,” Mace said. “I subpoenaed the files in oversight in March and released them in May. It’s already been done.”
Even though the documents revealed taxpayers paid over half a million dollars in confidential congressional sexual harassment settlements dating back decades, Massie believes there is more for the office to publicize.
“I just feel like there’s something missing,” Massie said ahead of the vote, adding that he wants the office to clarify whether there are more records that can be turned over. The resolution from the GOP lawmaker calls for both that office and the House Ethics Committee to turn over information.
“If somebody thinks what I’m doing is redundant, then it’s an easy yes vote,” Massie told CNN.
From January 1, 1996, through December 12, 2018, the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights approved 349 awards or settlements “to resolve complaints against legislative branch offices,” its general counsel said in a letter sent to House Oversight Chair James Comer previously obtained by CNN. Eighty of those cases were settled by a House or Senate office for a host of reasons. From that subset, seven cases led to payments to address allegations of sexual harassment.
The payments referenced in the letter used taxpayer money from a Treasury account that no longer exists as an option for lawmakers.
Following policy changes made in 2018 in the wake of the #MeToo movement, members could no longer rely on taxpayer dollars for settlements.
The House Ethics Committee announced in a recent statement that since the enactment of the new law, “the Committee has not been notified of any awards or settlements relating to allegations of sexual harassment by a member.”
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