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While the pressure mounted on Democratic harassers Representative John Conyers and Senator Al Franken to resign, more details broke on Thursday of the Congressional slush fund used to pay off such victims. ABC World News Tonight was the only network evening broadcast from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, and NBC) to report that the male victims of former New York Democratic Congressman Eric Massa were paid a settlement of nearly $100,000 combined.
At the end of a report about the claims against Conyers and the mounting pressure from Party leadership for him to resign, ABC briefly (37 seconds) discussed the new revelations.
“And Mary, you've been reporting about the separate set of rules for Congress, when it comes to sexual harassment complaints,” prefaced Anchor David Muir, teeing up Correspondent Mary Bruce. “And Congress, as you've reported, has paid $17 million to settle workplace complaints and tonight, you're learning of one big payout involving whom?”
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