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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican Women’s Caucus Chair Kat Cammack (FL-03) today released the following statement:
"The Republican Women’s Caucus has spent months working to strengthen workplace protections, accountability, and standards of conduct in Congress. Congressman Edwards’ 22-page letter only reinforces why that work is necessary.
"Congressman Edwards has every right to challenge the Ethics Committee’s findings and defend himself. Evidence and due process matter.
Democrats and Republicans are pressing the House Ethics Committee to move more quickly on investigations involving allegations of sexual misconduct or domestic abuse, as a string of high-profile cases and the looming midterms have renewed scrutiny of the secretive panel’s process.
Cammack said in a statement the committee “should move with urgency, and if these allegations are substantiated, Representative Gomez must resign and any criminal conduct must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Currently, members of Congress are permitted to have consensual intimate relationships with any staffer as long as they are not the members’ subordinate. A bipartisan effort is underway to change the rules to prohibit lawmakers from engaging in such activities with employees of any congressional office.