{"id":1243,"date":"2026-05-14T18:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:45:34","slug":"us-house-leaders-announce-bipartisan-effort-to-combat-sexual-misconduct-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1243","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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1243\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}