Rep. Kat Cammack selected as Co-Chair of bipartisan partnership to combat workplace sexual misconduct in Congress
Press release from Rep. Kat Cammack
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congresswomen Kat Cammack and Teresa Leger Fernández, along with Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, today announced a bipartisan partnership between the Republican Women’s Caucus and Democratic Women’s Caucus to combat workplace sexual misconduct in Congress. The two Caucuses will work together to identify reforms and solutions to make Congress a safer work environment for women and all survivors.
As the Chairs of the Republican and Democratic Women’s Caucuses in the House, Rep. Cammack and Rep. Leger Fernández were designated by Speaker Mike Johnson and Leader Hakeem Jeffries respectively to lead this bipartisan effort. Next steps and any proposed reforms will be done in coordination with House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (WI-01) and Ranking Member Joe Morelle (NY-25), who will both participate in this effort in an ex-officio capacity.
“No woman — regardless of party, title, or position — should ever feel unsafe in her workplace. Period,” said Republican Women’s Caucus Chair Kat Cammack (FL-03). “As Chair of the Republican Women’s Caucus, I am proud to be leading a bipartisan effort alongside the Democratic Women’s Caucus to take a hard look at the systems, reporting mechanisms, and workplace culture on Capitol Hill surrounding sexual harassment and assault. This effort has the support of Speaker Johnson and Leader Jeffries because this issue transcends politics. It’s about dignity, accountability, and ensuring that every person who comes to work in the People’s House is treated with respect and protected from abuse. The reality is that coming forward is extraordinarily difficult. Fear of retaliation, damage to careers, public scrutiny, and institutional pressure often silence victims long before justice has a chance to speak. We cannot claim to support women while ignoring the very real barriers that prevent them from reporting misconduct in the first place. Yes, bad actors must be held accountable and removed when warranted. But if we are serious about fixing this problem, we also have to confront the environment that allowed the behavior to occur, persist, or be concealed. Accountability cannot begin and end with punishment after the fact. It must include prevention, transparency, education, and systems people can actually trust. Congress should set the standard — not lag behind it. This effort is about restoring confidence that Capitol Hill is a workplace where professionalism, respect, and safety are non-negotiable. Every staffer, intern, employee, and Member deserves that.”
“All women deserve a safe working environment—including the brilliant public servants who work in Congress. That’s why the Democratic Women’s Caucus and Republican Women’s Caucus are partnering to address the procedural and cultural problems that have led to pervasive sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill. Together, we will push for bipartisan changes to make the reporting process faster and more accessible and increase education and training resources, prioritizing staff and survivors at every step. This effort builds on the work of members of the DWC, who have pushed for better support and protections for survivors for years. We bring that expertise and dedication to this partnership,” said Democratic Women’s Caucus Chair Teresa Leger Fernández (NM-03). “It is sickening that Congressmen sexually harassed and assaulted women staff instead of treating them with the respect they deserved. We know these women are not alone—women across America have been sexually assaulted and harassed by men at work who think they will never face any consequences. We will continue to stand with survivors, break the silence, and fight for a future free of sexual misconduct—in Congress and everywhere across this country.”
“To state the obvious, all women should feel comfortable and safe working in the halls of Congress. As a father who has two daughters working on Capitol Hill — this is as personal to me as it is to anyone,” said Speaker Johnson. “I am happy that Reps. Cammack and Leger Fernández, the respective chairs of the Republican and Democratic Women’s Caucuses, will lead this bipartisan partnership to find ways we can continue to make Capitol Hill safer for women and all staff.”
“Led by Reps. Teresa Leger Fernandez and Kat Cammack, the principled effort to end sexual violence and harassment in Congress has the complete and unequivocal support of the House Democratic Caucus,” said Leader Jeffries. “All women and survivors working on Capitol Hill and in district offices throughout the country must always be treated with dignity and respect. We support an ironclad policy so we can bring about a safe, professional atmosphere for all Congressional staff members. I am thankful for the efforts of all the members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus and look forward to the urgent work that must be done by this bipartisan group to end sexual violence and harassment.”
Meanwhile Kat our cost of living is through the roof. Thanks for nothing.
Another junk position to waste taxpayers money on.
Remember you are asking career politicians to monitor and discipline career politicians. It is very rare that a US senate or House member will go to prison if caught it a simple move to a lower position in government to continue their corruption. There has never been a US presidenlt sent to prison and probably never will be. These career politicians on from all PARTIES and stay in office making millions off the American public. The criminal acts are covered up in threats and disclosure agreements, and payoffs. Its another useless bill to add c another level of protection to politicians. An Investigation to have a Investigation, to have a Investigation, to have a panel, or congressional hearing. By the time the findings are determined its decades later.
How about monitoring the drinking on the job in Congress?
Are you talking about Kamela?
I think Kat’s risk of sexual harassment is very low. If she’s really concerned about women being treated poorly by government officials, then maybe she should express some disapproval for the President’s affinity for calling women “fat pigs.”
Can we talk about this too Kat?
“Yeah. Look, I oppose the war in Iran because I think that it is a strategic mistake, and it is literally putting my constituents’ lives at risk. We have already lost 13 service members, and there’s only bad options at this point, which is why every president before Trump has declined to actually use military force to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon because actually the most sustainable way to do that is through a diplomatic negotiation, which now the Trump administration is trying to do, but with a worse hand than we had before.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, of which I’m a member, will be introducing war powers resolutions every single week so that we always have one that’s ripe, so that we can force a vote and put Republicans on the record, on whether they stand with the Constitution, stand with our troops, or whether they’re willing to rubber stamp whatever Donald Trump wants, even if it makes no sense and actually doesn’t make our country any safer. And that’s what we’ll continue doing. But the war powers resolution is only one option that we have in terms of how we can oppose this war.
“We know that there will at some point be a supplemental funding request coming to us. The number has ranged from, you know, $20 billion to $200 billion. We’re still waiting to see what number they actually send to us.
But I think it’s incredibly important that all of my colleagues reject that supplemental funding request because we know that the courts have seen that if Congress funds something, even if we haven’t authorized it, that is seen as a de facto authorization. And so I think looking both at our annual appropriations bills, which we are working on right now, and whatever supplemental funding request comes down, making sure that we are actually using Congress’s power, the power of the purse, to prevent Donald Trump from doing anything more in this reckless illegal war will be incredibly important, both for the practicalities of it and for the legal underpinnings of it.”
From The Lawfare Podcast: Lawfare Daily: Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) on Congress’s Role in Foreign Affairs, May 14, 2026
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