Right now, if someone wants to file a complaint they've got to go through a month of legal counseling, then they have to sign a nondisclosure agreement that is in perpetuity. Then they go through mediation. And then they have to -- have a month of cooling off period.
Representative Speier discusses the lengthy and difficult process for filing sexual harassment complaints in Congress.
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