{"id":73520,"date":"2026-05-14T13:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/us-house-leaders-announce-bipartisan-effort-to-combat-sexual-misconduct-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:59:09","slug":"us-house-leaders-announce-bipartisan-effort-to-combat-sexual-misconduct-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/us-house-leaders-announce-bipartisan-effort-to-combat-sexual-misconduct-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"US House leaders announce bipartisan effort to combat sexual misconduct in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Announcement of taskforce comes after resignations of two congressmen amid sexual misconduct allegations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/14\/donald-trump-china-xi-jinping-live-updates-talks-meeting-summit-visit-beijing-latest-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>House speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mike-johnson\">Mike Johnson<\/a> and the minority leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/hakeem-jeffries\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> on Wednesday announced a bipartisan effort to combat sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpartnership\u201d led by the chairs of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democratic<\/a> women\u2019s caucuses \u2013 congresswomen Kat Cammack of Florida and Teresa Leger Fern\u00e1ndez of New Mexico \u2013 aims to \u201cidentify reforms and solutions to make Congress a safer work environment for women and all survivors\u201d, the leaders said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/14\/house-congress-sexual-misconduct\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcement of taskforce comes after resignations of two congressmen amid sexual misconduct allegations US politics live \u2013 latest updates House speaker Mike Johnson and the minority leader Hakeem Jeffries on Wednesday announced a bipartisan effort to combat sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill. The \u201cpartnership\u201d led by the chairs of the Republican and Democratic women\u2019s caucuses &#8230; <a title=\"US House leaders announce bipartisan effort to combat sexual misconduct in Congress\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/us-house-leaders-announce-bipartisan-effort-to-combat-sexual-misconduct-in-congress\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US House leaders announce bipartisan effort to combat sexual misconduct in Congress\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}