Why Congress is moving against sexual harassment, 4 years after #MeToo

Congress can sometimes demonstrate an unfashionable truth: It’s still capable of bipartisan achievements — they just tend to take years.

The Senate on Thursday passed legislation by voice vote to reform the way private companies handle sexual assault and harassment cases by ending the use of forced arbitration to resolve workplace disputes. The bill, first introduced in 2017, is more narrow than some advocates had hoped but nonetheless amounts to Congress’ most significant response to the #MeToo movement to date.

And everyone has a different theory for why it’s finally headed for…

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