House VA Committee Votes 22 – 1 to Subpoena VA over Documents Following Allegations of Sexual Harassment and Misconduct Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Print this Page Share by Email

Statement

“Unlike VA, when these brave whistleblowers came to my office to alert us of disturbing allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct at VA, I took them seriously. It’s unacceptable and abhorrent that the Department ignored these allegations. It took 45 days, and a personal call to Secretary McDonough, for the Department to treat these allegations with the urgency that they should’ve been treated with from day one. Which is why under my leadership, the Committee moved today to subpoena the Department over their failure to stop sexual harassment and fully comply with Congresses investigation. I want to thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for standing with me – and the thousands of women who have unfortunately been the victim of sexual harassment – to do our duty as Members of Congress to hold those at fault accountable. This behavior has no place in the federal government. Zero tolerance means zero tolerance, and I’ll hold VA to that no matter how long it takes to find out who knew what, when they knew it, and why they didn’t stop it.”

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