The Senate paid nearly $1.45 million in taxpayer-funded discrimination settlements over the last two decades, according to data released on Thursday obtained by several news outlets. The Senate Rules and Appropriations Committees made publicly available two decades of data from the Congressional Office of Compliance (OOC) ― where lawmakers and staffers file workplace claims ― on the settlements from 1997 to 2017. The data details the amount paid from a Treasury Department fund for discrimination suits against Senator’s offices and non-member Senate offices. The types of settlements included sex discrimination, race discrimination, age discrimination and disability discrimination.

Source: Huffington Post December 22, 2017 03:22 UTC