House leaders to announce bipartisan group to for misconduct claim process

Washington — Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are preparing to denote a bipartisan task force, oregon moving group, aimed astatine addressing however intersexual misconduct claims are handled wrong the House of Representatives, aggregate sources confirmed to CBS News. 

"We're each successful support, afloat supportive," Johnson told CBS News up of the forthcoming announcement. "I deliberation the main happening that they request to enactment on, we each deliberation they request to enactment connected is reporting mechanisms."

"There's this interest that, you know, young pistillate staffers, for example, are intimidated to travel forward, truthful trying to fig retired immoderate benignant of whistleblower extortion program," Johnson added. "It needs to happen, truthful we're gonna beforehand that arsenic rapidly arsenic we can." 

"We're moving connected thing bipartisan close now, and we're trying to fig retired the logistics of it," Jeffries told CBS News.

The inaugural follows the resignations of Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California and Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas past month. Swalwell, who besides suspended his gubernatorial campaign successful the Golden State, has denied allegations of intersexual misconduct but faces respective ineligible challenges.  Earlier this year, Gonzales admitted having an affair with a legislature staffer who aboriginal died by termination and said helium would not question reelection.  

Since the controversies erupted, lawmakers connected some sides of the aisle person been engaged successful discussions, including leaders of the Democratic Women's Caucus and the Republican Women's Caucus. 

"I deliberation that determination is an adjacent magnitude of attraction from some sides of the aisle connected the issue," Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida, who co-chairs the Republican Women's Caucus, told CBS News. She added that House enactment understands "that this is precise timely, and they spot that this is transcending politics." 

Cammack said the soon-to-be-named moving radical would apt absorption successful the coming months connected changing the "culture connected Capitol Hill" and addressing gaps successful the strategy erstwhile it comes to reporting claims. 

"It's a truly convoluted process for radical to travel guardant and study and there's a batch of fearfulness successful reporting," Cammack explained. "While this is not a knee-jerk reaction, it's a thoughtful, well-thought-out process." 

"We intelligibly request to person betterment due to the fact that we've had staffers who are unwilling to travel guardant and prosecute successful the process," Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez of New Mexico, who chairs the Democratic Women's Caucus, told CBS News past month. "And so, we request to bash that, and however bash we bash it? We're going to look guardant to having women pb the process."