Upper Chamber staff harassment ‘more widespread,’ and could happen again, say former Don Meredith Senate employees

Sexual harassment is ‘more widespread’ in the Senate than the Don Meredith case, says one of his former staffers.

The Speaker's parade enters the Senate Chambers on Nov. 04, 2019. Former staffers of ex-senator Don Meredith say that the Senate has not done enough to prevent other staff from being harassed and kept silent in the future. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

August 10, 2020

The Senate’s staff harassment problems run deeper than Don Meredith, say two of his former employees, and the Red Chamber has not done enough to confront its own failures to protect staff from their bosses. “I would say it’s...

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