Apparently, our tax dollars are used so that our elected morons can paw and do who knows what to women and men and then pay them off. The below is only for the House, my guess is the Senate bill is twice this. Congressional Office of Compliance releases year-by-year breakdown of harassment settlements and awards: While it’s not surprising that 2007 – the year when spirits were high, housing prices had just hit a record and the financial bubble was about to burst but not yet- was a “swinging one” on the Hill, with a whopping 25 sexual harassment settlements, the most in the past 20 years, we wonder what happened in 2002 when only 10 settlements led to a near record $4 million in awards. This question was prompted by the first ever release of Congressional harassment records, unveiled yesterday for the first time by the Congressional Office of Compliance. Below is...